dylgramac comments on What is Evidence? - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 September 2007 06:43AM

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Comment author: Jack 28 March 2010 09:41:16AM *  3 points [-]

I know this is Eliezer's line but it still looks like nonsense to me. This experience would be evidence stones have a tendency to spontaneously appear when four stones are put next to each other.

Comment author: dylgramac 16 December 2010 06:44:01PM 2 points [-]

I have a simpler reason that the belief 2+2 = 4 is not blind. When he says he has blind faith because "I can not conceive of a situation that would make 2+2 = 4 false." it is not blind because he is trying to find an alternative rather than entirely avoiding questioning his belief.