wedrifid comments on Attention Lurkers: Please say hi - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Kevin 16 April 2010 08:46PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 02 September 2010 09:05:19PM 4 points [-]

So don't take the lack of publically disclosed evidence as an indication that no evidence exists, because it isn't.

It actually is, in the sense we use the term here.

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 September 2010 09:57:16PM 2 points [-]

Exactly. One must be careful to distinguish between "this is not evidence" and "accounting for this evidence should not leave you with a high posterior".