Thursday, August 18, 2011

Help me with this paradox-Statistically, it against huge odds that we exist in this early age of the universe?

It is inappropriate to apply probability to completed events, especially events that you are so heavily biased towards observing as your own existence. If you win the lottery, you typically do not give the money back, reasoning that the probability of you winning was so low that it couldn't have happened. If you're the lottery clerk, you don't stand in amazement at the number of multimillionaire winners you've met.

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