Anthropic Bias
by Nick Bostrom
Publisher: Routledge 2002
Number of pages: 244
Description:
Anthropic Bias explores how to reason when you suspect that your evidence is biased by observation selection effects -- that is, evidence that has been filtered by the precondition that there be some suitably positioned observer to 'have' the evidence.
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