steven comments on Hug the Query - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2007 07:51PM

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Comment author: steven 16 December 2007 02:48:18PM 0 points [-]

"If you actually watch the plane fly, the calculations themselves become moot for many purposes, and Kelvin's authority not even worth considering."

But is that because of screening or just because the probability is so close to 100%? (Maybe this is the same point Doug S. already made.)