Jayson_Virissimo comments on PredictionBook.com - Track your calibration - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 31 October 2011 07:30:14AM *  1 point [-]
Comment author: gwern 31 October 2011 02:48:21PM 1 point [-]

Very funny, but to be fair, he would've given it a higher probability*, even if he might not have reinvented Laplace's law of succession and been able to give the sun rising a 1/1826250 chance of not rising.

* Remember, the empiricism vs rationalism debate could be summed up as 'is infinite certainty possible?'