Will_Sawin comments on More art, less stink: Taking the PU out of PUA - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 11 September 2010 08:19:45PM 3 points [-]

The general point still holds. P(at least one success) can be very large even if P(nth attempt succeeds) is small, for all n.