I wouldn’t have minded so much if the fancy formulation had been more accurate, or even equally as accurate. But it was actually a worse choice: “you only survived because of QI / anthropic principle” is always trivially true, and conveys zero information about the unlikeliness of said survival—it applies equally to someone who just drank milk and someone who just drank motor oil.
I wouldn’t have minded so much if the fancy formulation had been more accurate, or even equally as accurate. But it was actually a worse choice: “you only survived because of QI / anthropic principle” is always trivially true, and conveys zero information about the unlikeliness of said survival—it applies equally to someone who just drank milk and someone who just drank motor oil.
PS: Was “asymptotically” the right word?
No, I suppose it wasn’t.