Rain comments on Metacontrarian Metaethics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Rain 22 May 2011 12:57:21PM *  2 points [-]

He was trying to show the difference between something which actually happens and has an effect versus something which will only happen with a 1-in-3^^^^^3 chance: one exists in this universe, the other does not.

If we changed it to be one dust speck per second and a 1-in-3^^^^^3 chance every second that you are quantum teleported to a random planet in the universe, you'd swallow that planet in the ever-expanding black hole you'd become long, long before you're teleported there.