charon comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist

14Eliezer_Yudkowsky11 August 2007 12:21AM

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charon05 January 2008 04:41:35PM0 points [-]

I think one would be the closest to truth by replying: "I don't quite believe that your story is true, but if it is, you should... etc" because there is no way for you to surely know whether he was bluffing or not. You have to admit both cases are possible even if one of them is highly improbable.