Eugine_Nier comments on Should we discount extraordinary implications? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 01 January 2012 08:48:56PM 2 points [-]

Michael Vassar views this as a fundamental divide that separates sanitykind from Muggles; with Tyler Cowen, for example, rejecting cryonics but not feeling obligated to reject any particular premise of Hanson's.

If there is an argument that relies on many premises I can reject the conclusion, i.e., assign it a low probability while accepting, i.e., assigning high probability to, each individual premise.