Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on You're Entitled to Arguments, But Not (That Particular) Proof - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 07:58AM

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Comment author: whpearson 15 February 2010 12:13:44PM 1 point [-]

A question, at what probability level should you go around saying "I believe in X"?

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 February 2010 05:03:13PM 11 points [-]

The term "believe in" is used whenever someone else assigns a probability sufficiently higher than yours for you to take offense. For example, if someone assigns a negligible probability to hard takeoff and Robin Hanson assigns it a 10% probability, they will say that Robin Hanson believes in hard takeoff.