Cyan comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dpar 09 August 2010 08:02:14PM -1 points [-]

So you would then agree that merely the fact that something is written SOMEWHERE, does not automatically qualify it as evidence?

(Incidentally that is my original point, which in spite of seeming as common sense as common sense can be, has attracted a surprising amount of disagreement.)

Comment author: Cyan 09 August 2010 08:07:04PM *  5 points [-]

So you would then agree that merely the fact that something is written SOMEWHERE, does not automatically qualify it as evidence?

You have to specify what it purports to be evidence of before I can give you an answer that isn't a tangent.

Edited to add: Maybe I can do better than the above sentence. I affirm that the existence of this book is negligible but not strictly zero evidence for the claims detailed therein.