John_Maxwell_IV comments on Rationality Quotes September 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 September 2014 01:55:26AM 6 points [-]

This quote seems to me like it touches a common fallacy: that making "confident" probability estimates (close to 0 or 1) is the same as being a "confident" person. In fact, they're ontologically distinct.