MatthewB comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong
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This one is hard.
Take Cannae, for example. Can you really measure this as one outcome? It could be broken down into all kinds of things:
And, one could continue, probably down to the level of "Did Legionaire Plebius manage to hurl his pila soon enough to impale the charging Celtberian Villoni in time to keep the aforementioned Celtiberian from eventually killing Plebius' centurian, who would have then gone on to kill Hannibal, just before he had time to issue the final order of the day?"
So, how are you defining "A single event" here?
Loosely. Any of the ones you listed would be fine for me.