komponisto 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 23 February 2010 04:27:53AM 3 points [-]

You can't imagine anything that improbable. Unless we adopt Robin's anthropic penalty, in which case "I am in a unique position to affect 3^^^^^3 other people" is that improbable.

Comment author: komponisto 23 February 2010 05:25:20AM *  9 points [-]

Why not 1/3^^^^^3?

You can't imagine anything that improbable.

Actually, the beauty of mathematics is that it enables us to imagine such things -- just as surely as it tells us that there ain't nothin' we're talkin' about that's anywhere near that.