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The take away is just that if you want to predict rare events, you need evidence. Rare events do happen, if rarely, and unless you collect the evidence you'll have no choice but to be surprised if it happens to you.
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jimmy, comment on viking_math, "The false confidence theorem and Bayesian reasoning," LessWrong, January 2026.
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AI Verified The LessWrong source URL is fetchable and contains the quote verbatim in a comment attributed to “jimmy”: the comment block starts with the author name at line 135, and line 152 contains the exact quoted sentence. The provided source URL does contain it, and the stored month/year date (“Jan 2026”) is consistent with the page context. ([lesswrong.com](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HjbsjnutKE9xbXBwz/the-false-confidence-theorem-and-bayesian-reasoning)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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