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 and causes “observation selection effects.” This adjective denotes a statement whose “weak” and “strong” forms (10[1])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. For 10 points, a “principle” regarding a universe with intelligent life is denoted by what adjective from the Greek for “human”? ■END■

ANSWER: anthropic [accept weak anthropic principle or strong anthropic principle; accept anthropic bias; accept anthropic shadow; prompt on weak or strong until read with “that is a more specific form of a statement denoted by what adjective?”; reject “anthropocentric” or other variants]
<TM, Other Academic> | NAFTA-Packet-10
= Average correct buzzpoint

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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%25%0%85.25
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%25%0%90.00
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/2026367%0%33%90.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20251100%0%0%76.00
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20251100%0%100%76.00
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/20253100%0%0%88.33
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/20253100%0%0%105.33
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%33%33%83.33
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%0%40%111.20