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No, the question asked by the parent poster is "what is the probability that I would be born at this time in a long time frame".

Which is what I was answering. You can't pick a human at random including from the future, unless you're outside the system somehow.




That just leads you down the road of discarding probabilities. Since something either happens or doesn't happen, the probability is either 100% for the things that will happen or 0% for those that do not. This is not a helpful position to take, although it is technically correct, in some not very useful sense.

Humans are good at dealing in counterfactuals. 'What would have happened if I hadn't missed the bus?' is a useful question to ask, even if you did miss the bus. What would I be like if I hadn't gone to university/had taken that job/never killed my parents? Obviously the 'I' in those questions cannot be you, exactly, since you did or didn't do those things. But it's still a useful concept or thought experiment, and can give us valuable insights.

The commenter is using 'I' in that counterfactual sense. And certainly, I understood what they meant by it, so they were successful in communicating (at least, to me) which is what matters with language.




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