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Ep. 268 - Pascal's Mugging, Doomsday Clocks, and the AGI Debate

The Local Maximum with Max Sklar

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The Probability Distribution of the Week

The gamma distribution is a probability distribution over positive real numbers. It's usually a good choice when you're looking for some rate of occurrence or some ratio like that. So it's like, Hey, I expect something to happen an average of 8.6 times per minute. All right, time for a segment. And now the probability distribution of the week.

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