shminux comments on Open thread, 24-30 March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 25 March 2014 03:58:33PM 2 points [-]
Comment author: RowanE 25 March 2014 07:32:03PM 5 points [-]

I don't think that's really the fallacy of grey, if I have to map it to a piece of LessWrong-speak, I'd call it privileging the hypothesis; it's not saying you can't be sure of anything, if you're a good Bayesian it's not really telling you anything new there, it's just bringing one particular super-implausible hypothesis to your attention so it occupies much more of your mind than it has any right to.

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 26 March 2014 04:18:07AM 0 points [-]

The Hitlers are grey, though...

:D