Comment on Irrationality Game II

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:51:20 GMT

Any belief that I can never be talked out of (given how the human mind works, probably most beliefs we have are like this actually)

I suspect that with enough resources you could be talked out of any of your beliefs. Oh, sure, it would take a lot of time, planning, and manpower (and probably some people you approve of having the beliefs we'd want to indoctrinate you with). You're not actually 100% certain that you're 100% certain that 0 and 1 are probabilities.

The trouble with thinking 0 or 1 is a probability is that it is exactly equivalent to having an infinite amount of evidence, which is impossible by the laws of thermodynamics; minds exist within physics.

Furthermore, a feeling of absolute certainty isn't even a number, much less a probability.

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