The thing that's really dumb about "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is that people interpret "extraordinary" to mean "unusual, difficult for me to read, and anything else that trips my human cognitive biases" rather than "ontologically overcommitted"
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Right, that -might- be true. Weird claims might require weird evidence. But the problem with that claim is that it commits one to a large number of things, and you have to get evidence for them, and it would be hard to get evidence for them. Not that the claim itself is weird.
