Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Pascal's Muggle: Infinitesimal Priors and Strong Evidence - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 May 2013 12:43AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 May 2013 06:08:11AM 1 point [-]

That hyperbole one. I wasn't intending the primary focus of this post to be on the notion of a super-update - I'm not sure if that part needs to make it into AIs, though it seems to me to be partially responsible for my humanlike foibles in the Horrible LHC Inconsistency. I agree that this notion is actually very underspecified but so is almost all of bounded logical uncertainty.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 06 May 2013 08:00:15AM 1 point [-]

That hyperbole one.
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I agree that this notion is actually very underspecified

Using "a tad" to mean "very" is understatement, not hyperbole.

Comment author: ygert 06 May 2013 11:36:09AM *  9 points [-]

Using "a tad" to mean "very" is understatement, not hyperbole.

One could call it hypobole.

Comment author: ciphergoth 06 May 2013 11:28:33AM 4 points [-]

Specifically, litotes.