Round 10: Tossup 22

A “shadow” denoted by this adjective masks certain negative events according to a paper co-authored by Milan Ćirković. A statement denoted by this adjective inspired Ian Hacking’s “inverse gambler’s fallacy” and is opposed by John Leslie’s firing squad example. The “self-sampling assumption” and “self-indication assumption” account for a form of “bias” denoted by this adjective that titles a book by (*) Nick Bostrom (10[1])and causes “observation selection effects.” This adjective denotes a statement whose “weak” and “strong” forms differ on the necessity of observed fundamental constants. The siblings Daniela and Dario Amodei co-founded a startup named for this adjective that makes the LLM Claude. (10[2])For 10 points, a “principle” regarding a universe with intelligent life is denoted by what adjective from the Greek for “human”? ■END■

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