dlthomas comments on Pascal's Mugging: Tiny Probabilities of Vast Utilities - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2007 11:37PM

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Comment author: rebellionkid 16 December 2011 06:30:27PM 5 points [-]

Enormously higher probability is not 1. This still doesn't mean the statement is zero evidence.

Comment author: dlthomas 16 December 2011 06:41:13PM 2 points [-]

I don't know - if he did actually have reality breaking powers, he would likely be tempted to put them to more effective use. If he would in fact be less likely to be making the statement were it true, then it is evidence against, not evidence for, the truth of his statement.