chaosmosis comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: chaosmosis 13 October 2012 07:44:26PM *  0 points [-]

In that case, the fact that I believe something different than wedrifid is evidence against his point.

Wedrifid's preferences aren't literally zero percent evidence for his view of the universe, but they're probably less than one in a googol. My overall point is pretty clear. The nitpicking is annoying, and it seems to me like it's being done because people don't want to change their beliefs.

Your argument doesn't really make sense. You say that although agents might not know how to evaluate the probability of an action's occurrence, the evidence is still unlikely to be perfectly balanced. But probabilities are subjective, and so the fact that you don't know how to evaluate a piece of evidence indicates that for all functional purposes the evidence is perfectly balanced.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 13 October 2012 08:17:27PM 1 point [-]

Generally agreeing with your point -- it is nitpicking. Still it may be good practice to remember to say and think "that's not usable evidence" instead of "that's not evidence".