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Lumifer comments on Fragile Universe Hypothesis and the Continual Anthropic Principle - How crazy am I? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 August 2015 02:34:30PM *  7 points [-]

coin flip happens in a region outside the moon orbit, we would have plenty of time to observe it.

Information travels at the speed of light as well. If death flies towards you at the speed of light, you have zero time to observe it.

Comment author: MrMind 19 August 2015 09:27:11AM 3 points [-]

You're right.
Well, at least what I wrote constrains the kind of deaths that don't show up in a Fragile Universe, meaning the sub-luminal ones.