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Pascal's mugging is a really cool thought experiment. Similarly is the thought that what if instead of the entire universe being the size of the viewable univer
by snissn 8y ago
Pascal's mugging is a really cool thought experiment. Similarly is the thought that what if instead of the entire universe being the size of the viewable universe it's 10^N power, so just another exponential leap in size. Then our little corner of the multi-verse becomes such a tiny speck.
- Retric 8y agoPascal's mugging is simple failure to recognize probabilities can be and grow arbitrarily small. If a mugger paying you 4,000 dollars is less than half as likely as them paying you 2,000 dollars and you repeat that as the numbers grow then there is no inflection point.
- deciplex 8y agoMultiverse and universe-outside-the-visible-universe are not the same thing.