Tiiba2 comments on How to Seem (and Be) Deep - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tiiba2 16 October 2007 02:24:36AM -1 points [-]

"""For your expected lifespan value to diverge to +infinity, it is necessary to place only

.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001

probability on your chance of living forever, and I don't think you can realistically defend assigning a probability lower than that."""

I can assign a nonzero probability to any number less than infinity, but in infinite time, the probability that even a godlike being will earn a Darwin is 1, no matter how unlikely it is n the next year.