Jonathan_Graehl comments on An empirical test of anthropic principle / great filter reasoning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 26 March 2010 09:32:46AM 0 points [-]

That's not how I understood it. These are just types of islands that are supposed to exist in some hypothetical world. Arbitrarily, we say there are 10 islands of each type. That's all that 1/4 means here.