Rain comments on Metacontrarian Metaethics - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Will_Newsome 20 May 2011 05:36AM

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Comment author: Prismattic 21 May 2011 03:41:58PM 0 points [-]

I am just rephrasing the original torture v. dust specks problem. We have already established that exactly 1 individual in some universe somewhere will being tortured. The odds of that individual being you are greater-than-astronomical but that is not the same as "will never happen."

Comment author: Rain 22 May 2011 12:55:38PM *  3 points [-]

The odds of that individual being you are greater-than-astronomical but that is not the same as "will never happen."

Why would people only accept "zero probability", considering zero is not a probability?