Lumifer comments on Anthropic Atheism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 13 January 2014 07:52:14PM 1 point [-]

His reasoning would be entirely correct if you had determined the number of beans you draw randomly from between 0 and the total number.

Let's put this a bit more technically: the reasoning would have been correct if the number of beans were a random value drawn from a known (and sufficiently well-behaved) distribution.