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asparisi comments on Irrationality Game II - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: asparisi 04 July 2012 12:29:06AM 3 points [-]

I believe 0 and 1 are probabilities, but there is no way to obtain that degree of certainty. (unless you have an incredibly clever method you aren't sharing, which is mean)

An analogy would be that I believe that 3^^^3 is a number, even though I don't think I will ever have that many dollars. Similarly, I believe that 0 and 1 are probabilities, but I wouldn't grant any particular belief a probability of 0 or 1.

Comment author: Kindly 04 July 2012 12:36:49AM 0 points [-]

My intention was to make a stronger claim than the one you agree with, but fortunately my degree of confidence takes care of that for me.