benelliott comments on Rationality Quotes: March 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 06 March 2011 05:23:31PM 4 points [-]

This may sound clever but it simply isn't true. It is perfectly possible to find extraordinary evidence for a merely ordinary claim.

I'm sure I could find huge amounts of evidence for the claim the high speed car crashes are frequently fatal, but this doesn't mean the claim "slamming into a large metal object at 70mph may kill you" ever deserved a low prior.