Michaelos comments on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong
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Leaving aside the rest of this comment, please note that in many cases we throw around large numbers and high probabilities in order to obviously break fragile systems that wouldn't break as obviously if we threw small numbers and middle probabilities.
That makes intuitive sense to me, since I've worked in programming. Thanks!