TheOtherDave comments on What Bayesianism taught me - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 15 August 2013 03:53:39PM 0 points [-]

(nods) Systems that don't assign very low priors to such "evasive" events can easily wind up incorrigibly believing falsehoods, even if they process evidence properly.