orthonormal comments on Science as Attire - Less Wrong

48 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 August 2007 05:10AM

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Comment author: potato 15 November 2011 12:32:48AM 0 points [-]

What about the probability of "2+2=4 and not 2+2=4." Pretty sure that's zero, and if not we got some problems I believe.

Comment author: orthonormal 08 April 2012 06:23:12PM 2 points [-]

Short answer: I can never assign probability exactly 0, because there's a tiny chance that I'm currently hallucinating the "obvious" contradiction, etc.

Longer answer: How To Convince Me That 2+2=3, and my comment on it.