RobinHanson comments on Replicating and extending the grabby aliens model

[RobinHanson]

“My prior on $L_{max}$ is distributed $L_{max}\sim 5Gy+{10}^{Exp\left(0.7\right)}$”

I don’t understand this notation. It reads to me like “103+ 5 Gy”; how is that a distribution?

[Tristan Cook]

Sorry, this is very unclear notation. The $Exp\left(0.7\right)$ is meant to be a random variable exponentially distributed with parameter 0.7.

[RobinHanson]

That’s an exponential with mean 0.7, or mean ¹⁄₀.7?

[Tristan Cook]

Mean 0.7