steven0461 comments on Rationalists should beware rationalism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: steven0461 07 April 2009 08:19:06PM 5 points [-]

As far as I can tell, there is no way to assign a probability to an undetectable dragon.

Solomonoff induction. Presumably you agree the probability is less than .1, and once you've granted that, we're "just haggling over the price".