benelliott comments on Edward Nelson claims proof of inconsistency in Peano Arithmetic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 01 October 2011 06:37:14AM 2 points [-]

Can you roughly quantify it? Are we talking from million-to-one to million-to-one-point-five, or from million-to-one to hundred-to-one?

The announcement came as a surprise, so the update wasn't negligible. I probably wouldn't have gone as low as million-to-one before, but I might have been prepared to estimate a 99.9% chance that arithmetic is consistent. However, I'm not quite sure how much of this change is a Bayesian update and how much is the fact that I got a shock and thought about the issue a lot more carefully.