From: meekerdb <meekerdb@verizon.net>

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If you now want to assess "how likely" our life-friendly universe was, or how likely other observed properties of universe are, so you can compute how much of a "miracle" it all is, then you can do so by computing polytope volume ratios. One volume being, say, the parameter-vectors yielding a life-friendly universe,

But what do you do for the volume in the denominator? What range of values is possible?...natural?...canonical?

--Well, actually, the volume just mentioned could BE the denominator. What the numerator & denominator are, depend on what "Goal(s)" for "God" you are trying to think about. In particular, if you want to remove "observer existence bias" (OEB) then you want to only consider the polytope of universes in which human-like beings could exist, then to assess some goal God might have, you'd use that goal intersect humans-exist as the numerator, and humans-exist as the denominator, in your volume-ratio computation. It's hard to assess human-like-life's existence as a possible god-goal in itself, because it is completely contaminated by OEB. However, you might be able to assess that within a wider "ecosystem" of possible goals. For example, humans exist in situation A rather than humans exist in situation B -- that's free of observer existence bias, and if A seems a priori improbable compared to B, then that seems to tell us something both statistically significant, and free of OEB. I have some specific things in mind that Meeker knows about, but I won't discuss them at present. Some of them did look statistically significant to me based on a preliminary examination. For now, if anybody wants to help, you could (a) suggest possible additional physics formulas to add to the list (b) suggest possible god-goals that you'd like assessed. (c) whatever else. And maybe eventually this will get clearer. I think this area has in the past been a mess. Can it be cleaned up? To some extent.