Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Your existence is informative - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 03 July 2012 10:06:06PM 1 point [-]

If X has a significant probability of existing, but you don't know at all how to reason about X, how confident can you be that your inability to reason about X isn't doing tremendous harm? (In this case, X = big universes, splitting brains, etc.)