In discussing technological progress, Peter Thiel makes an interesting point based on Gott's delta t argument.
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I finally went and read Gott's original paper, which has one of the truly great summaries. www-psych.stanford.edu/~jbt/224/Gott_
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The paper is very much worth reading, as is Nick Bostrom's chapter on the argument in his Anthropic Bias book: anthropic-principle.com/?q=book/chapte.
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Haven't read Anthropic Bias—thanks for the recommendation.
