Re: Several Criticisms of the Doomsday Argument

From: Gene Ledbetter <ledbettergene.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:43:03 -0800 (PST)

Günther Greindl <guenther.greindl.domain.name.hidden> wrote: > If all of the balls had been numbered unambiguously from 1 through
> 1,000,010, the statistical effect produced by Bostrom's ambiguous ball
> 7 would vanish.

Agreed. Also consider another version: do not name the balls in the
first urn 1 to 10, but with uniform random numbers of the interval
[1,1000000].

Then, if you would draw the ball "517012" you would not know from which
urn it was either.

It is definitely a "labeling" artefact.
  Agreed. 8-)
   
  Gene Ledbetter

       
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