pedanterrific comments on Subjective Realities - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pedanterrific 21 September 2011 01:46:22AM 0 points [-]

The comments elsewhere on this page ask you to think in terms of probability. But what justifies these probabilities? [...] But if you examine your experiences logically, all that you really know is that so far, you have had a series of experiences consistent with this interpretation. {emphasis mine}

'really know' also signifies a probability. What makes p=1 so much more important than p=.99999?

It could be that your experience is actually most characteristic of a certain type of dream experienced by 29-dimensional hyperfnords,

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