fubarobfusco comments on Knowledge is Worth Paying For - Less Wrong

45 Post author: lukeprog 21 September 2011 06:09PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 22 September 2011 04:19:51PM -1 points [-]

Okay, I think our estimates aren't as different as I thought.

One of the stronger aspects of your earlier comment was "or any other major e-book provider", which you've dropped here. After all, if there are four major providers (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Apple) today, and if we believe each has an 80% chance of not-censoring, and that they are independent, then that works out to only a 41% chance for all of them not-censoring.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 22 September 2011 05:02:27PM 1 point [-]

Right. But the key issue is how likely is it for any given user of a system to experience such a problem? That is I suspect very low.