rodgerd's Monkey Hamlet Feasibility Study got me thinking again about the Anthropic Principle. How can we make judgements about the likelyhood of life, the universe, or anything, when we've only seen one universe? And this brings up the general problem of Observation Selection Effects. Questions of probabilty, and the state of our universe of course lead to Matrix-y speculations. They take time to digest, but these are good brain-bending papers. How would a million monkeys on keyboards around the world respond? (Are you in the slow lane?)