Stuart_Armstrong comments on JFK was not assassinated: prior probability zero events - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 April 2016 11:47AM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 April 2016 08:48:22AM 0 points [-]

That's slightly different - society reaching the right conclusion, despite some members of it being irredeemably wrong.

A closer analogy would be a believer in psychics or the supernatural who has lots of excuses ready to explain away experiments - their expectations have changed even if they haven't revived their beliefs.