Vladimir_Nesov comments on The 5-Second Level - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 August 2011 10:44:14PM 0 points [-]

That's true. But that's a reason to not investigate and not read this thread and not think about the subject at all, not a reason to reply in this thread that the idea is unlikely, much less to declare it unlikely.

If it's a priori deemed unlikely, deciding not to investigate will lead to it staying this way, and one could as well express this state of knowledge in posting to the thread.