MrHen comments on Cached Thoughts - Less Wrong

51 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 October 2007 11:46PM

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Comment author: Blueberry 09 February 2010 01:15:44AM 0 points [-]

No, that makes sense to me. You have essentially no information about whether a statement is more likely to be true or false at that percentage range.

Comment author: MrHen 09 February 2010 01:23:43AM 0 points [-]

Cool. I guess I never thought about what the distinction between active and passive disbelief would be for a Bayesian. It makes perfect sense now that I think about it... and it would have certainly made a whole bunch of discussions in my past a lot easier.

Pssh. Always learning something new, I guess.