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by JumpCrisscross 3732 days ago
Why isn't the conclusion "our population size is the most frequent" versus "largest"?
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I think he's approaching it from the assumption that a sentient being should assume itself to be a random individual out of all the sentient beings in existence, across all sentient species.
Doesn't that ignore the obvious (and known a priori) correlation between sentient beings in a species?