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Computer scientist, applied mathematician.
How would they respond to my suggestion that “false confidence” is not a problem and that belief-as-probability is enough to deal with satellite collision avoidance?
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Richard_Kennaway, comment on viking_math, "The false confidence theorem and Bayesian reasoning," LessWrong, January 2026.
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