RomeoStevens comments on In praise of gullibility? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 18 June 2015 07:37:11PM 0 points [-]

The way I've been framing this in my head is that there is a tendency towards having either universally too strong priors or universally too weak priors. It seems almost like strength with which to believe things is a personality trait.

Comment author: ChristianKl 19 June 2015 07:54:17PM 0 points [-]

I think that you make a mistake if you model the thinking process of the average person with priors. Priors are elements of Bayesian models that are far awah from how normal humans reason.