Kingreaper comments on A Thought on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

12 Post author: komponisto 10 December 2010 06:08AM

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Comment author: Kingreaper 12 December 2010 03:07:29PM 1 point [-]

The post you're responding to didn't use 3E22 as a probability. It gave 3E22 as a number of previous experiments.

Now, as the link you cited in this response shows, they're not necessarily quite identical experiments (although some might result in identical experiments).

But you're attacking an error which was not made.

Comment author: timtyler 14 December 2010 10:08:20PM *  1 point [-]

"1 in 3E22" was surely a probability. Yvain made a typo at the end of his comment.

Comment author: Kingreaper 15 December 2010 12:11:41AM 0 points [-]

Ah, I was mistaken. For some reason I didn't notice the link.

Are there any alternative colour-schemes for this site? Links seem to show up poorly on blue-backgrounded posts.