Thank you! Yes, I’m pretty new here, and now that you say that I think you’re right, anthropics makes more sense.
I am inclined to think the main thing required to be an observer would be enough intelligence to ask whether one is likely to be the entity one is by pure chance, and this doesn’t necessarily require consciousness, just the ability to assess likelihood one is in a simulation into one’s decision calculus.
I had not thought about the possibility that future beings are mostly conscious, but very few are intelligent enough to ask the question. This is definitely a possibility. Though if the vast majority of future beings are unintelligent, you might expect there to be far fewer simulations of intelligent beings like ourselves, somewhat cancelling this possibility out.
So yeah, since I think most future beings (or at least a very large number) will most likely be intelligent, I think the selection affects do likely apply.
Thank you! Yes, I’m pretty new here, and now that you say that I think you’re right, anthropics makes more sense.
I am inclined to think the main thing required to be an observer would be enough intelligence to ask whether one is likely to be the entity one is by pure chance, and this doesn’t necessarily require consciousness, just the ability to assess likelihood one is in a simulation into one’s decision calculus.
I had not thought about the possibility that future beings are mostly conscious, but very few are intelligent enough to ask the question. This is definitely a possibility. Though if the vast majority of future beings are unintelligent, you might expect there to be far fewer simulations of intelligent beings like ourselves, somewhat cancelling this possibility out.
So yeah, since I think most future beings (or at least a very large number) will most likely be intelligent, I think the selection affects do likely apply.