RobinHanson comments on How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 21 September 2008 09:47:54AM 2 points [-]

As others have noted, it seems straightforward to use Bayes' rule to decide when to believe how much that LHC malfunctions were selection effects - the key question is the prior. As to the last question, even if I was confident I lived in an infinite universe and so there was always some version of me that lived somewhere, I still wouldn't want to kill off most versions of me. So all else equal I'd never want to fire the LHC if I believed doing so killed that version of me.