I've heard of the "strong" and the "weak" anthropic principle, but never Park's "screwy." His articulation, or his paraphrase of somebody else's, is trivial, but I do think there's a there there in decent formulations. The name is too grand for what it is, which I'd say is just about a special kind of selection or sample bias. Rather than an answer to a question, it's more a corrective for the biased questioner. Bias is something that needs pointing out, more or less by definition, and it's common. It's not like a gratuitous cry of "foul" either, since it specifies the bias it's asserting, which is straightforwardly confirmed.
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I've heard of the "strong" and the "weak" anthropic principle, but never Park's "screwy." His articulation, or his paraphrase of somebody else's, is trivial, but I do think there's a there there in decent formulations. The name is too grand for what it is, which I'd say is just about a special kind of selection or sample bias. Rather than an answer to a question, it's more a corrective for the biased questioner. Bias is something that needs pointing out, more or less by definition, and it's common. It's not like a gratuitous cry of "foul" either, since it specifies the bias it's asserting, which is straightforwardly confirmed.
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