MichaelVassar comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

16 Post author: MichaelGR 11 November 2009 03:00AM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 13 November 2009 05:27:11AM 0 points [-]

Is that confidence your certainty given that your belief regarding what 3^^^3 means are correct, or are you >99.99% certain in those beliefs.

Comment author: JamesAndrix 14 November 2009 01:52:49AM 0 points [-]

Well given my recent calibration quiz, this doesn't count for much anyway. I also hadn't seriously considered whether 3^^^3 votes would cause the earth to vaporize.

Upon consideration, I am (and was) >99.99% certain that 3^^^3 is a number too big for me to deal with practically.