say you flip five coins, and if you don't get all heads, someone shoots you in the head before you can even see the results. if you by some slim chance survive, you might marvel at the long odds you faced...becuase winning is the only chance you have to think about the situation.
if we had "lost" the big bang lotto, we wouldn't be here to contemplate the long odds. so...our very observation of the problem means that we are either very lucky, or there was something changing the odds. but that we "won" doesn't indicate either.
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