timtyler comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Will_Newsome 13 August 2010 04:50PM

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Comment author: timtyler 27 August 2010 05:44:22PM *  2 points [-]

A false theory, by contrast, is simply false, it has no connection to reality. How do you assign anything other than an arbitrary probability to something that simply cannot be?

Intrade knows that one! At the Higgs boson bet over 200 people think they know how to assign a probability to the issue.

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=622297&z=1224442713385

Comment author: [deleted] 27 August 2010 07:16:59PM 0 points [-]

The bet is for an event:

"Higgs Boson Particle to be observed on/before 31 Dec 2010"

Shrug.