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

3 Post author: fortyeridania 04 October 2011 10:21AM

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Comment author: fortyeridania 05 October 2011 01:50:48AM 3 points [-]

In general I reject this.

As crazy and improbable as an idea might seem, surely it would seem even less credible if you learned that literally nobody believed it. Turning this around, wouldn't it seem at least a little more probable if a bunch of people believed it? And shouldn't this hold for abstract beliefs, too?