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datadataeverywhere comments on Solve Psy-Kosh's non-anthropic problem - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: datadataeverywhere 20 December 2010 11:17:45PM 2 points [-]

I think my answer is actually equivalent to Nornagest's.

The obvious answer is that the factors you divide by are (0.9 / 0.5) and (0.1 / 0.5), which results in the same expected value as the pre-arranged calculation.