Nick_Tarleton comments on Sufficiently Advanced Sanity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 23 December 2009 05:26:58AM * 3 points [-]

But

But no one could counterfeit the wonderfully and surprisingly sane parts; they would need to be that sane themselves.

is an assertion that P(Sane|Looks Sane) ~ 1, so it seems that this isn't a Bayesian flaw per se.