bcoburn comments on An inflection point for probability estimates of the AI takeoff? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: bcoburn 03 May 2011 01:32:21PM 1 point [-]

This isn't even related to the law of large numbers, which says that if you flip many coins you expect to get close to half heads and half tails. This is as opposed to flipping 1 coin, where you expect to always get either 100% heads or 100% tails.

I personally expected that P(AI) would drop-off roughly linearly as n increased, so this certainly seems counter-intuitive to me.