PetjaY comments on Privileging the Hypothesis - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 September 2009 12:40AM

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Comment author: PetjaY 01 February 2015 09:04:35PM 3 points [-]

That is correct, and even more importantly "When answering a question with a large enough number of possible answers, any single possible answer will have a bigger chance of being a false positive than true positive if tested"