Belief Revision & Coincidence
Exploring how human intuition fails to grasp the implications of massive scales and vast opportunities.
The Law of Truly Large Numbers
The Law of Truly Large Numbers says that with enough opportunities, even extremely unlikely events are likely to happen. In a sufficiently large population or over enough trials, “miraculous” coincidences become statistically expected. Watch how highly improbable events become inevitable as the number of opportunities (trials) increases.
Further reading: Law of Truly Large Numbers on Wikipedia.