Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 December 2010 05:09:44PM 3 points [-]

I should like to know Yvain's prior on this.

Comment author: Yvain 18 December 2010 04:25:51PM *  0 points [-]

On the "abracadabra" example? The overwhelming majority would come from the possibility that any time anything whatsoever happens the world is "destroyed", for some weird, maybe anthropic use of the word "destroyed" I don't understand compatible with me still being here.

If we limit it to "abracadabra" and nothing else, that's complex enough that < 1/trillion just picking it out of hypothesis space (lots of combinations of sounds that could destroy the world, lots of things that aren't combinations of sounds).