ciphergoth comments on Common sense as a prior - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Nick_Beckstead 11 August 2013 06:18PM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 11 August 2013 06:59:22PM 0 points [-]

Unfortunately, in general when someone has given a question lots of thought and come to a conclusion, it will take an absolute steamroller to get them to change their mind. Most elite physicists will have given the question that much thought. So this wouldn't demonstrate as much as you might like.