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-1 Post author: Kai-o-logos 20 April 2011 11:41PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 21 April 2011 12:23:58AM *  2 points [-]

The reason they are assuming P(E|D) = 100% is probably because they are only envisioning what one particular god would do, not the whole search space: they are asking "What would God do?" instead of "What would X percentage of the zillion possible gods in the search space do?" The hard part is getting them to realize that P(E|D) includes Zeus, Loki, and the FSM as well as Jehovah.