It already seems like we can infer that dragon-existence has, to you, nontrivial subjective likelihood because you don’t loudly proclaim “dragons don’t exist” and because you regard investigation as uncomfortably likely to turn you into a believer of something socially unacceptable.
If you think it’s in fact, like, 20% likely (a reasonable “nontrivial likelihood” guess for people to make), seems like the angry dragons-don’t-exist people should be 20% angry at you.
I don’t think inferring a probability anywhere near as high as 20% is justified. If, conditional on finding dragons the value of the knowledge is lower than the harms of being known as a dragon believer, then you shouldn’t go check no matter how low your prior.
It already seems like we can infer that dragon-existence has, to you, nontrivial subjective likelihood because you don’t loudly proclaim “dragons don’t exist” and because you regard investigation as uncomfortably likely to turn you into a believer of something socially unacceptable.
If you think it’s in fact, like, 20% likely (a reasonable “nontrivial likelihood” guess for people to make), seems like the angry dragons-don’t-exist people should be 20% angry at you.
I don’t think inferring a probability anywhere near as high as 20% is justified. If, conditional on finding dragons the value of the knowledge is lower than the harms of being known as a dragon believer, then you shouldn’t go check no matter how low your prior.