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burntoutfire on Oct 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors in More Than ...

There's infinite number of events which we can't rule out. My approach is basically the opposite - if the evidence for something is super-sketchy, maybe we shouldn't spend trillions (or even quadrillions?) on preparing for it.

moultano on Oct 13, 2019 [–]

The evidence is completely airtight. The problem is with the precision of predictions, not the evidence for the mechanism and rough magnitude.

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