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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 May 2008 05:39:07AM 1 point [-]

@Z.M.Davis:

Not everything on the blog goes in the popular book. This sort of thing would go into a small e-book that is read only by advanced seekers of the way.

@Anna Salamon:

"Strictness" is here meant in the sense of how exactly your reasoning is guided, both in being forced to permit, and forced to reject, propositions.

Rather than "strictness" in the sense that, in machine learning, would be called "specificity": Rejecting more examples in a +/- classification problem.

Assigning lower probabilities to things Science deems "not proven", is not necessarily stricter reasoning - it just makes you sound like a stern elder.