Instead of extrapolating "there are no black swans in town" to "the world", it would be better to calculate the probability of no black swans being in town (giv

Instead of extrapolating "there are no black swans in town" to "the world", it would be better to calculate the probability of no black swans being in town (given that there are N swans in town), based on hypothetical populations of swans and varying uniformity of distribution. A zero-knowledge proof[0] uses similar reasoning. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof