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32 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 05 September 2012 03:55PM

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Comment author: private_messaging 05 April 2013 04:10:58AM *  0 points [-]

Eliezer argues that the rational response to uncertainty when empirical evidence is absent or equipoise is to assign higher probability to the simpler explanation

And assigns higher probability to an explanation that has not even been demonstrated sufficient to make predictions with (i.e. which, as far as we know, is 'too simple')