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irishcoffeetoday at 1:09 PM1 replyview on HN

> Feeling good about the existence of something, or bad about its absence, does not count as evidence.

Isn't the inverse also true?


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Filligreetoday at 4:04 PM

Sure, but nonexistence is the default. Has to be the default; most possible things do not exist. In this case we have no evidence for, so we stay with the default.

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