Strange7 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: DanielLC 17 December 2010 12:56:11AM 2 points [-]

You shouldn't use Planck times unless the protean can rearrange themselves that quickly.

Comment author: Strange7 17 December 2010 05:20:45PM 0 points [-]

If the temperature is high enough that there's molecular movement at all, you could observe a collection of proteins every Planck-instant and see a (slightly) different arrangement each time. You might be stuck with similar ones, especially stable configurations, for a long time... but that's exactly the sort of bias that makes life possible.