Unknowns comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: CronoDAS 16 February 2010 08:29AM

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Comment author: Unknowns 23 February 2010 08:59:20PM *  0 points [-]

Right, because that "Scientology is proposed" has itself an extremely low prior, namely in proportion to the complexity of the claim.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 23 February 2010 09:23:11PM 1 point [-]

In proportion to the complexity of the claim given that humans exist, which is much lower (=> higher prior) than its complexity in a simple encoding, since Scientology is the sort of thing that a human would be likely to propose.