Kindly comments on My Wild and Reckless Youth - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 August 2007 01:52AM

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Comment author: Kindly 01 February 2013 07:37:51PM 0 points [-]

Well, yes. If we believe that A=>B with probability 1, it's not enough to assign probability 1 to A to conclude B with probability 1; you must also assign probability 1 to modus ponens.

And even then you can probably Carroll your way out of it.