Hm, it would seem to be neither; it's like, 'we can't actually think about these (far) things in near mode, so we'll use a mathematical approximation of near mode and see what that tells us'.

When you actually asked this, I came up with an answer similar to the below:

That seems to be a very Near sort of act, since it requires detail and concrete thought. I suspect Less Wrong has not thought about the question at all and would give an answer either similar to mine or not feasibly distinguishable from noise.

I kept thinking this answer was terrible, so I didn't post it. Today I did for some reason.