Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Hand vs. Fingers - Less Wrong
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Richard sez:
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Please explain what it means for something to be genuinely conceivable, as opposed to just being conceivable to some particular person.
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to react to this paragraph, frankly. I mean, suppose someone came to me and said: "There are Martians in my nose, therefore extraterrestrial life exists" and I said "Why do you believe there are Martians in your nose?" and he said, "No, I'm not reasoning from my belief that there are Martians in my nose - nothing follows from this, as a belief could be mistaken - I'm reasoning from the fact that there are Martians in my nose."
I mean, how is this not 100% pure naive realism?