pickaxe

• pickaxe 3 Sep 2012 10:11 UTC

  −2 points

  in reply to: Vladimir_Nesov’s comment on: [SEQ RERUN] How Many LHC Failures Is Too Many?

  I’m not sure why you expect to see LHC failures in the past instead of e.g. either a failure to attain sufficient level of technological development to build LHC, or a vacuum fluctuation preventing destruction of the world. If you wish, a fluctuation which looks just like Higgs.

  It’d be trivial to reformulate laws of physics so that anyone who doesn’t observe some interaction dies of vacuum decay.

  edit: Also, if you adjust probability of theories based on improbability of your existence given a theory, using Bayes theorem, this anthropic consideration cancels out.

• pickaxe 24 Aug 2012 16:14 UTC

  0 points

  in reply to: John_Maxwell’s comment on: [LINK] Strong AI Startup Raises $15M

  I thought Thiel donates to SI simply because Yudkowsky is his friend.