RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes April 2014 - LessWrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 April 2014 05:03:09PM 1 point [-]

You are making a mistake in reasoning if you don't change your belief through that evidence. Your belief should change by orders of magnitude. A change from 10^{-18} to 10^{-15} is a strong change.

Where do those numbers come from?

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 April 2014 08:42:13PM 2 points [-]

In this case they come from me. Feel free to post your own numbers.

The point of choosing Zeus as an example is that it's a claim that probably not going to mindkill anyone. That makes it easier to talk about the principles than using an example where the updating actually matters.