Anthropic Bias¶
Bostrom, N. (2002). Anthropic Bias: Observation Selection Effects in Science and Philosophy. Routledge.
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Primes¶
Mechanisms¶
- Event-Triggered Capture Gate
- This is an observation selection effect: absence of a capture is not evidence of an uneventful world.
This sourceExplains that observation-selection effects condition what can be observed, so a missing observation cannot by itself establish that the underlying event did not occur.
- This is an observation selection effect: absence of a capture is not evidence of an uneventful world.
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