Re:A Big Ring on the Sky
by stouset on Monday May 27, 2024 @08:34PM
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> But the prev post chose a particular outcome, and any particular outcome is rare.
No, we first observed a particular outcome (the giant ring). This would be like running coin flips for long enough, spotting some interesting sequence that wasn’t decided beforehand, then deciding it must not be random because that sequence should have been incredibly rare.
Sure, that sequence was rare but it was just as likely as all the other sequences which we didn’t end up seeing.
No, we first observed a particular outcome (the giant ring). This would be like running coin flips for long enough, spotting some interesting sequence that wasn’t decided beforehand, then deciding it must not be random because that sequence should have been incredibly rare.
Sure, that sequence was rare but it was just as likely as all the other sequences which we didn’t end up seeing.