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The Carter Catastrophe - A Statistical Doomsday Argument
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10-November-2005, 04:49 PM
Ken G
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That speaks to limitations in the urn analogy, which is why I prefer the alien time traveller approach. Since the alien chose you at random, it would not seem to alter your situation vis a vis the validity of the Carter catastrophe.
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