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endoself comments on List of compartmentalized people (who both win and fail at truth-seeking) - Less Wrong Discussion

-9 Post author: gwern 13 May 2011 04:14PM

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Comment author: endoself 13 May 2011 05:31:31PM 4 points [-]

regards the non-existence of Bible Codes as unproven (but unlikely)

Gah, too many negatives. Does he think that the codes are unlikely or that their nonexistence is unlikely. It seems to mean the second but, if so, it is a very awkward phrasing.

Comment author: gwern 15 May 2011 04:25:05PM 0 points [-]

I was trying to get at Aumann being clever and statistics-savvy enough not to state that they exist for certain, but that he is almost as wrong to assign them any non-negligible probability (as he clearly does).