“After observing empirically that the LHC had failed 100 times in a row, would you endorse a policy of keeping the LHC powered up, but trying to fire it again only in the event of, say, nuclear terrorism or a global economic crash?”
After observing 100 failures in a row I would expect that a failure would occur after the next attempt to switch it on too. So it doesn’t seem as a reliable means to prevent terrorism or economic crash even if anthropic multi-world “ideology” were true.
On the other hand, if somebody were able to show that the amplitude of LHC’s unexpected failure for technical reasons was significantly lower than the amplitude of terrorist-free future...
“After observing empirically that the LHC had failed 100 times in a row, would you endorse a policy of keeping the LHC powered up, but trying to fire it again only in the event of, say, nuclear terrorism or a global economic crash?”
After observing 100 failures in a row I would expect that a failure would occur after the next attempt to switch it on too. So it doesn’t seem as a reliable means to prevent terrorism or economic crash even if anthropic multi-world “ideology” were true.
On the other hand, if somebody were able to show that the amplitude of LHC’s unexpected failure for technical reasons was significantly lower than the amplitude of terrorist-free future...