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Well, to each his own, of course, and to me this is the interesting question.
If you'll excuse me, I'm not going to believe that.
Thinking about this some more, I'm curious... what's your prior for my statement being true of a randomly chosen person, and what's your prior for a randomly chosen statement I make about my preferences being true?
Sufficiently close to zero.
Depends on the meaning of "true". In the meaning of "you believe that at the moment", my prior is fairly high -- that is, I don't think you're playing games here. In the meaning of "you will choose that when you will actually have to choose" my prior is noticeably lower -- I'm not willing to assume your picture of yourself is correct.
(nods) cool, that's what I figured initially, but it seemed worth confirming.
Well, there's "what's interesting to me?", and there's "what is that person over there trying to express?"
We're certainly free to prioritize thinking about the former over the latter, but I find it helpful not to confuse one with the other. If you're just saying that's what you want to talk about, regardless of what the OP was trying to express, that's fine.
That's your perogative, of course.