brent comments on Perpetual Motion Beliefs - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2008 08:22PM

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Comment author: brent 28 February 2008 02:04:03AM 1 point [-]

I thought this post was actually very easy to follow. It actually gave me the vocab I needed to settle scores of arguments with dumbarse religious types who say daft things like "Evolution is only a religion" and "You can't PROVE that blah blah blah magic fairy dust blah blah blah blah".

> "But you don't know that!" > > I don't know it with certainty, but it is mandatory that I expect it to happen. Probabilities are not logical truths, but the laws of probability are.

I love that. "I don't know it with certainty - that's because of your ridiculous understanding of what 'certainty' means - but it is mandatory that I expect it to happen."

Cheers.