SilasBarta comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 17 September 2010 06:20:03PM *  0 points [-]

In a noisy world, sufficiently asymmetric suppression of falsehoods is indistinguishable from suppression of truths.

Is there a name for this theorem? It seems like it follows from invariance of information content (passed through a noisy channel) under permutation of symbols.