AnnaGilmour comments on The Amanda Knox Test: How an Hour on the Internet Beats a Year in the Courtroom - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AnnaGilmour 21 February 2010 11:38:00PM 0 points [-]

Well, it is quite fascinating that no one gets a 0 probability. Just to ask, does Meredith get a 0 probability? I will move past understanding the exclusion of 0. I just want to make sure I understand. Anyway, when I say 0, I understand it to mean functionally 0, which is the same as .0000000001, which is also functionally 0, correct? Thank you for you patience.

Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 12:34:53AM 5 points [-]

Meredith could have committed suicide. She's probably more likely to be responsible for the death than Princess Diana. And she's much more likely than the team of Batman-and-square-circle.

Comment author: AnnaGilmour 22 February 2010 01:02:56AM 0 points [-]

Were there any fatal wounds that she could not have inflicted?

Comment author: Alicorn 22 February 2010 01:23:16AM 7 points [-]

Well, maybe she had superpowers. Or was killed by her time-traveling past self. When you get to probabilities this low, boy do you ever get to make shit up.

Comment author: wedrifid 23 February 2010 02:11:33AM 0 points [-]

Maybe she was killed by her time-traveling future grandaughter. I was tempted to rule it out based off the anthropic principle (I don't expect to exist in a world in which someone was killed by someone who wouldn't exist if the victim was killed). But come to think of it I haven't assigned 0 to specific operational mechanisms behind time travel.