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  • Imagine you're in a dark  room playing hide and seek,  

  • and you've found what you  think is a really good spot.

  • You start to think this spot is so  good that nobody could ever find you.

  • But in reality, the only reason that nobody has  

  • found you yet is just that…  they haven't, but they will.

  • That is Anthropic Shadow.

  • We're all here alive, living our livesbecause we've managed to avoid the big,  

  • bad events that could have wiped us out.

  • But just because we've been lucky so far doesn't  mean those scary things aren't out there.

  • The concept of the "Anthropic Shadowis a critical and thought-provoking idea  

  • introduced by Nick Bostrom. It refers to  an observation selection effect that skews  

  • our understanding of catastrophic  events' frequency and severity.

  • Essentially, it suggests that humanity's current  existence imposes a bias on our ability to observe  

  • and evaluate the true likelihood of  existential or catastrophic events.

Imagine you're in a dark  room playing hide and seek,  

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