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by staticassertion 98 days ago
> Actually I think it probably is suspicious to have the exact same opinion after studying something over a long period of time.

This seems really odd, probably fundamentally incorrect. "Believing something over time means it is less likely that you are engaging in good faith"? Totally insane take.
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tialaramex 97 days ago
On the contrary it's suspicious if I happened to guess exactly right with much less data and so have the same conclusion after learning more. I suggest that the more likely reason is that I didn't learn anything at all.
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staticassertion 97 days ago
> On the contrary it's suspicious if I happened to guess exactly right with much less data and so have the same conclusion after learning more.

No it isn't? If I guess what time it is and then look and see that it's around sunset, which is evidence towards my initial guess being right, it is not "suspicious". This is just a fundamentally broken model of evidence.

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