If Good’s original disbelief in God had remained 100 percent, no amount of data, not even God’s appearance, could change his…

“If Good’s original disbelief in God had remained 100 percent, no amount of data, not even God’s appearance, could change his mind. So, to be consistent with his Bayesian perspective, Good assigned a small positive probability to the existence of God to make sure he could learn from new data, if it arose.”

– Barrat, James. Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era. New York: Thomas Dunne, 2013. (viacarvalhais)