linkhyrule5 comments on Probability is Subjectively Objective - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 July 2008 09:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 September 2013 03:48:38PM 1 point [-]

That's because the gas station owner still believes in the value of the dollar. But if all of you stopped believing in it...

Comment author: linkhyrule5 30 September 2013 03:55:34PM 1 point [-]

Right, but if I had an effect that depended on massed belief, I'd be pretty sure that existed too.

Say, Discworld-style gods.

(Things that depend on individual belief generally have a low enough prior that I'm probably dreaming/hallucinating, and also I can't tell myself to stop believing in things so whatever it is I think I'm doing it's not "not believing in X".)