kilobug comments on Caught in the glare of two anthropic shadows - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 04 July 2013 07:54PM

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Comment author: kilobug 05 July 2013 09:32:14AM 3 points [-]

Any reason to use the same probability for large and small disasters ? Intuitively I would say small disasters are much more frequent than large ones.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 05 July 2013 10:11:15AM *  2 points [-]

Only to keep the math simple! That assumption was enough to get the points I was making.

The results are valid in general, but this was the simplest one I could construct to illustrate the point.