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jkaufman comments on Is our continued existence evidence that Mutually Assured Destruction worked? - Less Wrong Discussion

7 Post author: jkaufman 18 June 2013 02:40PM

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Comment author: jkaufman 19 June 2013 08:46:40PM 1 point [-]

the results should be biased toward "don't have kids"

Could you elaborate?

Comment author: cousin_it 20 June 2013 09:07:38AM *  1 point [-]

See chapter 9 of Bostrom's book. His analysis seems a little weird to me, but the descriptions of the scenarios are very nice and clear.