Will_Newsome comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 07:35:23AM 0 points [-]

Do you think you guess numerically what your prior probability was before learning of the Miracle of Fatima?

Comment author: PlaidX 03 October 2010 08:01:11AM *  2 points [-]

Mmm, < .01%, it wasn't something I would've dignified with enough thought to give a number. Even as a kid, although I liked the idea of aliens, stereotypical flying saucer little green men stuff struck me as facile and absurd. A failure of the imagination as to how alien aliens would really be.

In hindsight I had not considered that their outward appearance and behavior could simply be a front, but even then my estimate would've been very low, and justifiably, I think.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 03 October 2010 09:31:17PM 1 point [-]

Probably ~15% (learning about Fatima didn't change it much by the way). Basically because I can't think of a good reason why this should have an extremely low prior.