thomblake comments on What is Evidence? - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: thomblake 19 January 2012 06:17:28PM 4 points [-]

I don't think that Eliezer suggested using a belief's contagiousness as strong evidence of its truth. Rather, a belief's lack of contagiousness is strong evidence of its untruth.