Re:A Primer on the Doomsday Argument
by spacehome on Monday August 18, 2014 @03:36PM
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There are only finitely many ways to arrange matter in a finite volume under a finite temperature. If it's safe to assume that anything we could classify as "human" will fit inside a sphere of radius 1 light-year and has a temperature under 10^20 K, there are finitely many humans.
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Yeah but it's not given that God chooses at random who is going to cubicle. He might have for example created you first and then put you in a cubicle regardless if it's 100 of them or 10.
I agree with your resolution of that paradox though. It's reasonable to assume - having no information about the process - that God creates humans randomly and it's 10x more likely that you are created in a world with 100 cubicles than in a world in 10 cubicles.
In my mind there is no paradox at all there.