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View submission: Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence?
For me it's a fallacy the problem with biggest stupidest questions is that there isn't any ordinary evidence.
Comment by [deleted] at 11/03/2021 at 10:11 UTC
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It's about a threshold for belief.
If your friend told you, if you walk to your bathroom, he'll give you $10, you might think he's full of shit, but you also might think it worth to walk to the bathroom just so he might give you $10. A part of you is willing to buy into it because it's not particularly extraordinary either in terms of the reward or the action. But if your friend then turns around and says to you, perhaps even after giving you $10 for the previous task, now if you walk 100 miles, he'll give you $50,000, well that is much less likely that he has 50 grand he's willing to blow just for this purpose, and you'd be a lot more skeptical about believing him and likely refuse the action. Maybe you'd want to know how much money he has in his bank account. Did he just win the lottery? Has he ever done this before? Is he trying to get you to lose weight? How about signing a legally binding document and contract.