Yvain comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: Drahflow 16 December 2010 09:07:59AM 1 point [-]

But it's hard for me to be properly outraged about this, because the conclusion that the LHC will not destroy the world is correct.

What is your argument for claiming that the LHC will not destroy the world?

That the world still exists albeit ongoing experiments is easily explained by the fact that we are necessarily living in those branches of the universe where the LHC didn't destroy the world. (On an related side note: Has the great filter been found yet?)

Comment author: Yvain 16 December 2010 02:26:32PM 1 point [-]

Good point. I've changed this to "since the LHC did not destroy the world", which is true regardless of whether it destroyed other branches.