orthonormal comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 12:43AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 06 May 2013 03:48:50AM 0 points [-]

Typo:

opportunities to affect small large numbers of sentient beings

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 May 2013 03:55:34AM 2 points [-]

No, it's supposed to say that. 10^80 is earlier defined as a small large number.

Comment author: orthonormal 06 May 2013 03:59:29AM 2 points [-]

I missed that. It's bad enough notation that I expect others to stumble over it, too.

Comment author: RobbBB 06 May 2013 04:49:54AM 15 points [-]

I think it's good bad notation.

Comment author: DSimon 06 May 2013 04:32:15PM 1 point [-]

Maybe "smallishly large"? That makes it clearer that you are saying "(small-kind-of-large)-kind-of number", not "number that is small and large"