taryneast comments on Mundane Magic - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2008 04:00PM

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Comment author: shokwave 19 December 2010 12:33:19PM 10 points [-]

Almost nothing gives "absolutely zero evidence"

Evidence smaller than a human brain can process - where counting it as evidence would cause a brain to overestimate the evidence's value - seems like it would be a case where it's practical to consider it absolutely zero evidence.

Comment author: taryneast 19 December 2010 01:40:32PM 6 points [-]

Yes, I agree with this. I'd count it as "so negligible as to be beneath bothering to waste a neuron on it" :)

Comment author: Will_Sawin 31 August 2011 11:41:53PM 12 points [-]

The evidence here isn't actually negligible, I don't think. It's just that the posterior probability is negligible.