ArisKatsaris comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 02 February 2011 06:18:44PM 22 points [-]

I think we could modify our sense of it to mean that if you are down to having to accept a 0.01% probability, because you've excluded everything else, then it's probably better to go back over your logic and see if there's any place you've improperly limited your hypothesis space.

Several paradigm-changing theories introduced concepts that would have previously been thought impossible (like special relativity, or many-worlds interpretation)