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Re:Pig brains partially revived four hours after death by vcavallo on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @03:49PM (#19685847)
what about “everything is fine forever” as a possible thing with a non-zero probability of happening (which then does happen)? how does that confound the calculus?
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Re:Pig brains partially revived four hours after death by taneq on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @11:58PM (#19744851)
It has to be fine every single day to be fine forever. It only has to be not fine once to not be fine forever. These dice get rolled every day.
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