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Old 17-November-2005, 08:37 PM
grant hutchison grant hutchison is offline
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Originally Posted by Damburger
Most of us wouldn't have come up with the Doomsday Argument.
Trouble is, Carter's argument applies to you whether or not you know about it.
So the non-random distribution of "Doomsday knowledge" doesn't seem like it should have any more of an effect on Carter's "random life" stipulation than the non-random distribution of, say, knowledge of the rules of cricket.

Grant Hutchison
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