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

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Comment author: Allan_Crossman 22 September 2008 05:13:00AM 0 points [-]

Allan: your intuition is wrong here too. Notice that if Zeus were to have independently created a zillion people in a green room, it would change your estimate of the probability, despite being completely unrelated.

I don't see how, unless you're told you could also be one of those people.