Pavitra comments on Open Thread, August 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 29 August 2010 11:13:46PM *  0 points [-]

Morendil said:

Eventually the process will stop, with a total blob population of P.

Under your model, P=0 with frequency 1, so that doesn't make sense. I think the idea is to stop after a predetermined number of generations and see how many blobs are left.

Edit: No, wait, I see what's going on. You're right.