pnrjulius comments on But There's Still A Chance, Right? - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 January 2008 01:56AM

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Comment author: anonymous7 06 January 2008 10:31:54AM 2 points [-]

Ironically, in the future we might learn that the first replicator required "chance" in the same order of magnitude.

Comment author: pnrjulius 03 April 2012 02:47:08AM * 0 points [-]

In an infinite universe, a 1 in 10^^10 event is guaranteed to happen infinitely many times.