Desrtopa comments on Techniques for probability estimates - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 07 January 2011 02:30:05AM 0 points [-]

The god of the one true religion will refuse to intervene to punish its believers for cooperating with the members of all the other religions for the experiment.

Comment author: shokwave 07 January 2011 03:04:59AM 2 points [-]

I'd bet good money the god of the one true religion is permeable to flour too.

Comment author: Desrtopa 07 January 2011 03:51:56AM 3 points [-]

Well if I were omnipotent, I'm sure I'd use my powers to avoid getting covered with flour.

Comment author: shokwave 07 January 2011 04:06:31AM 1 point [-]

Upvoted for precise use of anthropomorphic bias (less certain: to highlight the common anthropocentric distortions of God concepts).

Comment author: Will_Sawin 08 January 2011 02:25:52AM 1 point [-]

Prediction: The die comes up 666.

Confidence: If N>665, slightly higher than 1/N due to ironic gods. If N<666, 0.