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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 March 2015 11:57:14AM 0 points [-]

Additionally, 0.1% is way too high for the probability that significant agent-level time-travel exists in our universe.

The one person I asked - Anders Sandberg - gave 1% as his first estimate. But for most low probabilities, exponential shrinkage will eventually chew up the difference. A 100 orders of magnitude - what's that, an extra 10,000 years?