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   Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 09:42:11 JST Eaton

   @ireneista this. It’s basically an exercise in laundering presuppositions in rounding errors, then amplifying them to infinity by boosting the timescale

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     Eaton (eaton@phire.place)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 09:49:13 JST Eaton

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     @ireneista “Over seven billion years, the absolute amount of cumulative suffering caused by you not giving me that poptart is greater than the deaths in WWII” is funny on one level, but it requires a diabolical insistence on refusing to examine the enormous world of other potential causal paths — predicting specific longshot outcomes is absolutely the least reliable part of risk assessment