thomblake comments on Causation as Bias (sort of) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 10 July 2009 01:54:25PM 0 points [-]

Falsificationism is dead

Well I'm merely an amateur when it comes to philosophy of science, but I seem to encounter more Popperians of one sort or another than not.

Without some sort of causality, there's no way to make predictions. As was recently pointed out, causality does not imply correlation; the theory that RichardKennaway's device operates causally predicts almost perfectly its behavior. Do you have a better method?