From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Apr 25 2003 - 18:18:23 MDT
mez,
Oops an oversight on my part....
In my past post to you here I wrote:
> You must, at least according to DA theory, accept that
> you, Ramez Naam of 2003, are a single random sample taken
> from the population of all humans ever to live past or present.
I meant of course that you must consider yourself as a single random sample
taken from the population of all humans ever to live in the past, present
*or future*"
But I think you already know that much about the problem.
Also one might consider broadening the definition of "human life" to include
"all intelligent life in the universe," as is suggested in another thread
and which no doubt happened in still earlier threads lost in the archives.
This critical assumption still seems open to debate.
Personally I tend to agree with people like you who think something must be
wrong with the DA, though my opinion is based only intuition rather than any
strict arguments. Perhaps someday I'll find time to really attack it.
-gts
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