Sequence classic: "I don’t think you could get up to 99.99% confidence for assertions like “53 is a prime number.”
In “Absolute Authority,” I argued that you don’t need infinite certainty: …
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To figure this out, we have to start with 100% and then subtract the chance we're in a Truman Show world run by producers who think math is hilarious. Because nobody thinks math jokes are funny we can subtract zero and be 100% certain.