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army1987 comments on Open Thread, November 23-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 November 2013 09:23:17AM 1 point [-]

a probability of zero unless they have very strong evidence

<nitpick>When the prior probability is exactly zero, the posterior probability will still be exactly zero no matter how strong the evidence is.</nitpick>