Hmm… I suppose the psychic abilities hypothesis might be indirectly tied to anthropic considerations, but it feel to me as reading too much into the particular example chosen. Or maybe not, maybe almost any hypothesis has anthropic effects when it comes down to it, but I think the idea was to try to isolate one particular effect.
I think that the only rational reason to treat your own experience as more significant, given the constraints of the problem, is the anthropic nature of the evidence. And that explains nicely why others shouldn’t update as much.
If you think there’s an example that isolates non-anthropic effects that behave similarly, perhaps. I’ll reserve judgement until I see such an example—for now, I don’t know of any.
Hmm… I suppose the psychic abilities hypothesis might be indirectly tied to anthropic considerations, but it feel to me as reading too much into the particular example chosen. Or maybe not, maybe almost any hypothesis has anthropic effects when it comes down to it, but I think the idea was to try to isolate one particular effect.
I think that the only rational reason to treat your own experience as more significant, given the constraints of the problem, is the anthropic nature of the evidence. And that explains nicely why others shouldn’t update as much.
If you think there’s an example that isolates non-anthropic effects that behave similarly, perhaps. I’ll reserve judgement until I see such an example—for now, I don’t know of any.