I’m a Bayesian. I assign probabilities, not “believe”. I penalize hypotheses by their unshared complexity and update based on evidence. If probabilities come out even, then I don’t “suspend judgment”, I judge that the probabilities are even, and plan accordingly.
For an avowed admirer of Orwell’s famous essay on English, I am surprised to see you resort to distinctions without differences. Whatever you call it (n.b. the euphemism “judge” in the last sentence quoted above), you draw a line between some claims you work with and your motor cortex acts on, and other claims you don’t. That is, in plain English, you believe some claims are true and others are false.
Eliezer said:
For an avowed admirer of Orwell’s famous essay on English, I am surprised to see you resort to distinctions without differences. Whatever you call it (n.b. the euphemism “judge” in the last sentence quoted above), you draw a line between some claims you work with and your motor cortex acts on, and other claims you don’t. That is, in plain English, you believe some claims are true and others are false.