I feel like I’m still the same person as I was before I learned how many humans were born earlier than me. I think that’s all you need for the Doomsday Argument to go through.
What about if you consider all of humanity the same “person” i.e. there is just one entity so far. If you then expect humanity to live for millions of years then the doomsday hypothesis is just similar to a child asking “why am I me” and not a sign of imminent doom. Of course thats begging the question/ circular reasoning somewhat.
I probably think the best answer to it is that future humans/trans-humans/WBE/AI are not in the same reference class as us because of enhancement etc. What reference class to choose to me undermines the whole argument mostly.
I feel like I’m still the same person as I was before I learned how many humans were born earlier than me. I think that’s all you need for the Doomsday Argument to go through.
What about if you consider all of humanity the same “person” i.e. there is just one entity so far. If you then expect humanity to live for millions of years then the doomsday hypothesis is just similar to a child asking “why am I me” and not a sign of imminent doom. Of course thats begging the question/ circular reasoning somewhat.
I probably think the best answer to it is that future humans/trans-humans/WBE/AI are not in the same reference class as us because of enhancement etc. What reference class to choose to me undermines the whole argument mostly.