titotal@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoSequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.”www.lesswrong.comexternal-linkmessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up122arrow-down10
arrow-up122arrow-down1external-linkSequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.”www.lesswrong.comtitotal@awful.systems to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squarefeistel@sns.feistel.partylinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-21 year agoTo figure this out, we have to start with 100% and then subtract the chance we’re in a Truman Show world run by producers who think math is hilarious. Because nobody thinks math jokes are funny we can subtract zero and be 100% certain.
To figure this out, we have to start with 100% and then subtract the chance we’re in a Truman Show world run by producers who think math is hilarious. Because nobody thinks math jokes are funny we can subtract zero and be 100% certain.