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fburnaby comments on Magic Tricks Revealed: Test Your Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: peter_hurford 13 August 2011 05:23AM

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Comment author: fburnaby 14 August 2011 04:26:20AM 1 point [-]

There may also be good signalling reasons to shy away from considering the hypothesis that your <trusted person/friend> is deceiving you. If so, I would expect my untutored priors to be too low.