djcb comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: djcb 05 September 2009 12:49:40PM 2 points [-]

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence -- Carl Sagan

(I know this quote is very much a cliche -- but, as a realized a long time after seeing it, it is not only a nice heuristic, but it also emphasizes the bayesian, probabilistic view of knowledge over the popperian one.)