DanielLC comments on What is Evidence? - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: DanielLC 05 September 2011 11:28:32PM 0 points [-]

In this case, they'll trust you less than if you told them that your shoelaces were untied, but it's not fundamentally different. Your shoelaces being untied is only communicable in the sense that you can tell someone, unless you count telling them to look at your shoes, but that doesn't seem to be what this is talking about.

Unless I misunderstood Eliezer, he seemed to be saying that all evidence is communicable in exactly this way.