X-Message-Number: 5871 From: eli+@GS160.SP.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: Re: CryoNet #5868 - #5870 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 96 11:47:13 EST Mike Perry writes: >Even though a condition of total invulnerability is never reached >(and it would be unrealistic to think it could be reached), >the overall probability of dying is only about 2%, i.e. there is a 98% >chance of literally infinite survival. "Literally infinite" in the mathematical model, where you can view the whole process /sub specie aeternitatis/. In the world, you can at best claim unbounded rather than infinite survival. Furthermore, such a claim is a claim about the future for all time, and a strong one at that (is it likely that there is *no* non-zero lower bound on risk?). This makes it hard to support empirically. -- Eli Brandt eli+@cs.cmu.edu Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5871