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Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by astrange on Thursday June 19, 2025 @04:07PM (#44322085)
> They even know how to put bounds on the unknowns and their own lack of information.

No they don't. They think they can do this because they've accidentally reinvented the philosophy "logical positivism", which philosophers gave up on because it doesn't work. (This is similar to how they accidentally reinvented reconstructing arguments and called it "steelmanning".)

https://metarationality.com/probability-limitations

Re:Guess I'm a Rationalist Now by TheAncientGeek on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:19AM (#44327488)