Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Demands for Particular Proof: Appendices - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 February 2010 08:31:42PM 4 points [-]

There are counterbalancing negative possibilities, you can't sum over just the positive ones. And since a prior probability distribution sums to 1, the contribution of even solely the positive possibilities must converge to a finite sum rather than diverging.