RichardKennaway comments on Probability and radical uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 November 2013 05:13:52PM *  1 point [-]

Well, yes. As is the mere presence of the idea of $2 for $1 terrible evidence that the black box will do any such thing.

Eliezer speaks in the Twelve Virtues of letting oneself be as light as a leaf, blown unresistingly by the wind of evidence, but evidence of this sort is on the level of the individual molecules and Brownian motion of that leaf.