Eliezer, I think saying “some hypotheses are just too extraordinary” is misleading in the sense it attributes the problem to the hypotheses, while the more fundamental problem is the tendency of some types of people to be too gullible about some types of extreme claims.
Eliezer, I think saying “some hypotheses are just too extraordinary” is misleading in the sense it attributes the problem to the hypotheses, while the more fundamental problem is the tendency of some types of people to be too gullible about some types of extreme claims.