At the end of 2023, will I believe that "bigfoot" is a near-hominid species of great ape that avoids humans very effectively", and the possibility is worth spending some non-negligible amount of effort investigating?
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Prompted by this comment thread on lw:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/twdjDGDZtyHqZvLiH/?commentId=MMwBsDWi3hCm4kwCd#YHivDyjk7dzZvNdQf
Question format was shamelessly stolen from this question:
https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing/at-the-end-of-2023-will-i-believe-t
In case I don't think this is worth investigating, this resolves as false. If I investigate this, I'll resolve it to my subjective crecedence that this is true.
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