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This critique is so poor that I think there's a nonzero chance that you're a plant.
It took me a fraction of a second to remember the correct meaning of "plant", during which I imagined HonestAbe as a cactus.
I find this side effect quite pleasant.
Hah, I'd thought I was the only one!
(And now I'm imagining a cactus that looks like Abraham Lincoln.)
I think an actual pro-SIAI plant would make arguments which were quite a bit better than HonestAbe's, this is too obviously stupid to work as a strawman.
Zero is such a non-probability that I think there is a nonzero chance that you are a plant!
Certainly true. I still haven't found a sufficiently accurate way of describing this sort of situation; "a low chance" would imply that the quality of the critique updated me away from believing the author was a plant, whereas "a significant chance" has too much weight. "Nonzero" works in common parlance but is pseudo-meaningless, since there's a nonzero chance of practically anything.
What would you recommend in this case?
Non-negligible?
Good question. "Almost suspect" works sometimes. "Actually considered the possibility". "Remote possibility". Just 'chance'. "chance (albeit slim)". Oscar's 'Non-negligible'.