[mr_toad]

> But numbers can go arbitrarily low.

Which begs the question, why 1, and not zero? I can buy zero, or a very large number. But 1 exactly? Nature doesn’t do that.

[tshaddox]

There’s not a huge difference between zero and one, other than whether someone’s around to comment about it on HN. And even a second wouldn’t really tell us more about the probabilities.

[soVeryTired]

Siméon Denis Poisson would like a word with you.

But in seriousness, I agree.