Pentashagon comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong
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That requires a MTTF of 3^^^3 years, or a per-year probability of failure of roughly 1/3^^^3.
This implies that physical properties like the cosmological constant and the half-life of protons can be measured to a precision of roughly 1/3^^^3 relative error.
To me it seems like both of those claims have prior probability ~ 1/3^^^3. (How many spaceships would you have to build and how long would you have to test them to get an MTTF estimate as large as 3^^^3? How many measurements do you have to make to get the standard deviation below 1/3^^^3?)