Great post Alikorn! I think there are some arguments that are similar to “But somebody would have noticed.” that are used to discredit any unusual hypothesis and that I read already several times on LW, they are:
Regarding conspiracy theories:
“If this were true some whistle blower would step forward.”
“You are privileging the hypothesis because the prior probability of it is much to low.”
Great post Alikorn! I think there are some arguments that are similar to “But somebody would have noticed.” that are used to discredit any unusual hypothesis and that I read already several times on LW, they are:
Regarding conspiracy theories:
“If this were true some whistle blower would step forward.”
“You are privileging the hypothesis because the prior probability of it is much to low.”