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2022-11-16: Are there Undiscovered Elements Beyond The Periodic Table?

  • 17:30: Nick Bostrum’s self-sampling assumption tries to clear this up.

2019-12-17: Do Black Holes Create New Universes?

  • 16:08: ... 3: Assume self-sampling assumption makes sense and internet access is bell curved over over the duration of ...

2019-12-09: The Doomsday Argument

  • 04:15: ... talk about observers rather than environments is essentially using the Self-Sampling Assumption, defined by philosopher Nick Bostrom as follows: “All other things equal, ...
  • 06:46: Let’s apply the self-sampling assumption and imagine that you could have been any one of the past and future humans of our species.
  • 08:17: ... at how the anthropic principle is interpreted, in particular through the self-sampling assumption and the definition of your reference ...
  • 04:15: ... talk about observers rather than environments is essentially using the Self-Sampling Assumption, defined by philosopher Nick Bostrom as follows: “All other things equal, an ...

2019-11-18: Can You Observe a Typical Universe?

  • 10:08: ... it he defines, although doesn’t invent, the self-sampling assumption, which states that “All other things equal, an observer should reason as ...
  • 10:41: The anthropic principle and the self-sampling assumption encourage Bayesian thinking.
  • 11:25: ... brains, which we covered, to the doomsday argument - the idea that the self-sampling assumption predicts that the end of the world is nigh - which we’ll cover soon - ...
  • 16:43: ... self-sampling assumption says we should assume we're a typical observer - so maybe the most ...
  • 10:41: The anthropic principle and the self-sampling assumption encourage Bayesian thinking.
  • 11:25: ... brains, which we covered, to the doomsday argument - the idea that the self-sampling assumption predicts that the end of the world is nigh - which we’ll cover soon - hopefully ...
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