gjm comments on Using Bayes to dismiss fringe phenomena - Less Wrong Discussion
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That isn't an estimate of P(UAP). The following two propositions are very different:
The first of these can be true without the second -- maybe there are aliens but they never come here. (That was rather the point of the Fermi paradox.)
The second can be true without the first -- maybe people have actually seen angels, or time travellers from earth's future, or spontaneous rips in the fabric of spacetime.