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

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 04 October 2011 07:37:22PM 3 points [-]

You propose a theory of maximum entropy, apparently retreating from your original statement that "`people are more likely to believe true things' holds only for a limited class of theories." Can you suggest a test for what sort of beliefs are likely to be [un]correlated with truth?