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Hyena comments on Religion, happiness, and Bayes - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Hyena 04 October 2011 12:40:33PM *  1 point [-]

You would want to approach it conditioned from the likelihood that an arbitrary happy belief is one which is also false. I am not sure this calculation could be made with much confidence, whether statistical or instinctual.