KnaveOfAllTrades comments on Anthropics doesn't explain why the Cold War stayed Cold - Less Wrong

6 Post author: KnaveOfAllTrades 20 August 2014 07:23PM

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Comment author: KnaveOfAllTrades 20 August 2014 09:08:14PM *  5 points [-]

Is this in support of or in opposition to the thesis of the post? Or am I being presumptuous to suppose that it is either?

Comment author: DanielLC 20 August 2014 11:44:04PM 3 points [-]

Opposition.

Comment author: khafra 03 September 2014 01:35:46PM 1 point [-]

The opposition is that the number of observers able to ask questions about royal siblings is not heavily correlated with the actual number of royal siblings historically present; while the number of observers able to ask questions about a lack of large thermonuclear exchanges is heavily correlated with the actual number of historical large thermonuclear exchanges.