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IlyaShpitser comments on You only need faith in two things - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2013 11:45PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 13 March 2013 12:39:53PM *  2 points [-]

Are you being deliberately obtuse? When Laplace asked "what is the chance the Sun will rise tomorrow" he was obviously describing a 24 hour period.

The point is that concise hypotheses are trickier than they seem.