Robin_Hanson2 comments on Some Claims Are Just Too Extraordinary - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2007 07:14AM

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Comment author: Robin_Hanson2 20 January 2007 10:20:49PM 6 points [-]

Eliezer, I think saying "some hypotheses are just too extraordinary" is misleading in the sense it attributes the problem to the hypotheses, while the more fundamental problem is the tendency of some types of people to be too gullible about some types of extreme claims.