Hopefully_Anonymous comments on Science as Attire - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Hopefully_Anonymous 23 August 2007 02:53:37PM 0 points [-]

"I'd be willing to assign zero probability to mathematical falsehoods, such as "2+2=5"."

You might be willing to, Doug S., but that doesn't mean that it's optimally rational for you to do so. I don't know as much about bayesian reasoning as I'd like to, but my understanding is that would not be bayesian of you.