gjm comments on Probabilities Small Enough To Ignore: An attack on Pascal's Mugging - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gjm 29 September 2015 02:00:09AM 1 point [-]

It makes it worse or better, depending on whether you decide (1) that everyone has the power to do that with probability >~ 1/3^^^3 or (2) that no one has. I think #2 rather than #1 is correct.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 29 September 2015 02:59:18AM 2 points [-]

Well, doing basic Bayes with a Kolmogorov priot gives you (1).