MugaSofer comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong
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Except surprising things are surprisingly common. Most people overestimate the likelihood that their model is correct.
But this doesn't seem like a great example of that, yeah. I was sort of pattern-matching this into the wider discussion (is it worth figuring out if the earth will crash into the sun?)