Luke_A_Somers comments on How sure are you that brain emulations would be conscious? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 26 August 2013 02:36:28PM 0 points [-]

With the approximately already being present, Wedifrid might as well have used ~100%. 100% is not a valid probability, but it is really close to valid probabilities.

Comment author: Creutzer 26 August 2013 02:44:19PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. There are several conceivable and sensible correspondence rules between the scales of various granularity; he probably generalized the rule that you're never allowed to assign 100% and 0% to anything and worked with that.