Bayesian Inductive Inference and the Anthropic Cosmological Principle

Many moons ago I wrote a paper with a person called Antony J.M. Garrett with the title Bayesian Inductive Inference and the Anthropic Cosmological Principle (the full reference is A.J.M. Garrett and P. Coles, Comments on Astrophysics 17(1) 23-47 (1993). It got a few citations here and there, and has been discussed in a few books and other texts. In 1999, the journal Comments on Astrophysics was merged with some other journals to form Comments on Modern Physics which was then acquired by publishers Taylor and Francis in 2001, when it took over Gordon and Breach. The new publisher never put the old papers online in digital format. Most of the back catalogue of Comments on Astrophysics is indexed in NASA/ADS (bibstem: ComAp), but No. 1 of Volume 17 is not there. That classic paper is not, as far as I know, available anywhere on the internet. Or at least it wasn’t until now. I was recently asked for a PDF of the paper so I made a scan and sent it. Now that I have a scan, however, and…