@GabrielDuquette going to spit out a bunch of objections to try to at least pin them down 0. this is what @meaningness wrote abt on LW
@GabrielDuquette I can choose to make you right, or choose to make you wrong; your estimate recurses into nonsense.
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@GabrielDuquette 3. To expand on Vassar: My refusal to answer may be to force you to assign 0 credibility to my statement. -
@GabrielDuquette 3a. putting status confidence in the mix is relevant but certainly nowhere near a complete answer. -
@GabrielDuquette i.e. I can give you a high confidence answer that int x = x^2 + C without assuming a social status. -
@GabrielDuquette English conflates authority-as-expertise with authority-as-rulership. This is a big source of mistakes. -
@GabrielDuquette 4. Confidence in a hypothesis *cannot be modeled as a probability* except in very special situations. -
@GabrielDuquette cf @themattsimpson's post http://carcinisation.com/2014/09/26/the-old-evidence-problem/ … and my comments there
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