Lightwave comments on Two probabilities - Less Wrong

1 Post author: rwallace 15 February 2010 02:18PM

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Comment author: Lightwave 16 February 2010 01:10:49PM 0 points [-]

So basically you're saying that the probability of there being life on only one of the hemispheres is arbitrarily small?

Comment author: rwallace 16 February 2010 03:27:10PM 0 points [-]

Mathematically nonzero, but small enough that we can treat it as zero for practical purposes, yes.