It looks like that Hawking said the following: One of the 2 statements are true with equal probability:
A) extinction date is randomly chosen from interval (0, 1000)
B) extinction date is randomly chosen from interval (0, 10 000)
It is a little bit complex but correct way to express x-risks expectation.
And CNN interpreted it as extinction will happen after 1000, which is not following from what he said, as it completely excludes (0, 1000) variant, which has 55 per cent probability in Hawking claim. It looks like CNN thought that Hawking said: extinction date will be between (1000, 10 000). So after 1000 years from now we should prepare to it.
It looks like that Hawking said the following: One of the 2 statements are true with equal probability:
A) extinction date is randomly chosen from interval (0, 1000)
B) extinction date is randomly chosen from interval (0, 10 000)
It is a little bit complex but correct way to express x-risks expectation.
And CNN interpreted it as extinction will happen after 1000, which is not following from what he said, as it completely excludes (0, 1000) variant, which has 55 per cent probability in Hawking claim. It looks like CNN thought that Hawking said: extinction date will be between (1000, 10 000). So after 1000 years from now we should prepare to it.