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Comment author: Alia1d 10 May 2016 12:20:14AM *  0 points [-]

These are more gut feelings, I had already considered a lot of evidence for and against these before I found out about Bayesian updating, so the bottom line was really already written. If I tried to do a numerically rigorous calculation now, I would just end up double counting evidence. This is just a 'if I had to make a hundred statements of this type that I was this confident about, how often would I be right guess.

Comment author: gjm 10 May 2016 12:42:05AM -1 points [-]

so the bottom lie was already written

Much though this amuses atheist-curmudgeon me, may I suggest that you might want to fix the typo?

Comment author: Alia1d 10 May 2016 05:32:33AM 0 points [-]

Oops, thnks