Mmm, < .01%, it wasn’t something I would’ve dignified with enough thought to give a number. Even as a kid, although I liked the idea of aliens, stereotypical flying saucer little green men stuff struck me as facile and absurd. A failure of the imagination as to how alien aliens would really be.
In hindsight I had not considered that their outward appearance and behavior could simply be a front, but even then my estimate would’ve been very low, and justifiably, I think.
Probably ~15% (learning about Fatima didn’t change it much by the way). Basically because I can’t think of a good reason why this should have an extremely low prior.
Do you think you guess numerically what your prior probability was before learning of the Miracle of Fatima?
Mmm, < .01%, it wasn’t something I would’ve dignified with enough thought to give a number. Even as a kid, although I liked the idea of aliens, stereotypical flying saucer little green men stuff struck me as facile and absurd. A failure of the imagination as to how alien aliens would really be.
In hindsight I had not considered that their outward appearance and behavior could simply be a front, but even then my estimate would’ve been very low, and justifiably, I think.
Probably ~15% (learning about Fatima didn’t change it much by the way). Basically because I can’t think of a good reason why this should have an extremely low prior.