Roy_Haddad comments on Infinite Certainty - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 January 2008 06:49AM

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Comment author: Roy_Haddad 09 January 2008 10:16:08AM 1 point [-]

Assert a confidence of (1 - 1/googolplex) and your ego far exceeds that of mental patients who think they're God.

So we are considering the possibility of brain malfunctions, and deities changing reality. Fine. But what is the use of having a strictly accurate Bayesian reasoning process when your brain is malfunctioning and/or deities are changing the parameters of reality?