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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by platz on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:33AM (#13929810)
> If the universe is infinite in some sense, this probability converges to 1.

Limits that extend to infinity don't have to converge to 1.

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Re:Your yearly dose of is-the-universe-a-simulation by vidarh on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:10AM (#13930999)
His only unstated assumption to make it converge to 1 is that the odds of any given such compution being executed in any given volume of time and space must be positive. If it is, then no matter how low the probability is for any given location and time, given he postulated an infinite universe the probability will converge on 1.
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