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private_messaging comments on Justifiable Erroneous Scientific Pessimism - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 08:37PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 19 May 2013 07:29:33PM *  2 points [-]

Yes. The issue is that the argument "look at periodic table, it's so big, there would be at least one" requires that the fact of fission releasing neutrons would be assumed independent across nuclei.

Comment author: ESRogs 21 May 2013 07:21:31PM 0 points [-]

Gotcha, thanks.