Cyan comments on Avoiding doomsday: a "proof" of the self-indication assumption - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 23 September 2009 02:54PM

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Comment author: Cyan 23 September 2009 06:44:24PM 2 points [-]

flip a coin 65536 times

I think you mean 16 times.

Comment author: gjm 24 September 2009 07:27:01AM 0 points [-]

Er, yes. I did change my mind a couple of times about what (2^n,n) pair to use, but I wasn't ever planning to have 2^65536 people so I'm not quite sure how my brain broke. Thanks for the correction.