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34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 January 2008 07:19AM

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Comment author: Unknown 14 January 2008 07:27:14PM 1 point [-]

To make that claim more obvious: suppose I am involved in the argument between the Greens and the Blues, and after seeing the blue sky, I intend to keep looking up at the sky until it looks green. This won't make it any more probable that when I look at the sky tomorrow, it will look green. This probability is determined by objective facts, not by my intentions, and likewise with the probability of getting a 60% effectiveness from 100 trials.