Sniffnoy comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: Sniffnoy 02 November 2011 05:40:36AM 3 points [-]

That assumes you interpret not happening as being a separate third category, but for these purposes it seems more reasonable to consider it as always happening after (i.e. happening at time infinity), since we want lower probability of it happening soon to cause the median date to increase.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 02 November 2011 09:48:28AM 0 points [-]

Yes, that was my thinking.