RichardHughes comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 June 2012 05:30:52AM 21 points [-]

I am thiiiiiiiiis confident!

(Holds arms wide, then accepts any well-specified bet as if the actual probability of Christianity were zero, i.e., with betting prices corresponding to the probability of the specified evidence being observed, given the fixed assumption that Christianity is false.)

Comment author: RichardHughes 19 June 2012 09:54:48PM 3 points [-]

I was literally just about to post a thread asking about the fixation on putting numerical values on our confidences all the time, then I saw this. So, thanks for that. Wrapped that little dilemma right up.