You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

timtyler comments on P(X = exact value) = 0: Is it really counterintuitive? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: lucidfox 29 July 2011 12:45PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (49)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: timtyler 31 July 2011 10:33:04AM *  2 points [-]

Teapots in the asteroid belt are contrary to Occam's razor. The situation with discrete physics is very different. Science has a long history of showing that apparently-continuous phenomena actually turn out to be grainy on a smaller scale.