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Comment author: PhilGoetz 08 August 2009 04:01:23AM 0 points [-]

No; that probability about a property of the universe is a one-shot trial. It only has to be false once, out of one trial.

Comment author: torekp 08 August 2009 01:07:22PM 1 point [-]

So your thesis is not that rationality dooms civilization, but only that as far as we know, it might. I get it now.

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