wedrifid comments on Designing Rationalist Projects - Less Wrong
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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?
Good question. "Almost suspect" works sometimes. "Actually considered the possibility". "Remote possibility". Just 'chance'. "chance (albeit slim)". Oscar's 'Non-negligible'.