timtyler comments on The Popularization Bias - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 20 July 2009 08:34:01AM -1 points [-]

Making agents with assumptions about anything which we are not confident of the truth of seems like a dubious strategy.

We are fairly confident of the Church-Turing thesis, though: "Today the thesis has near-universal acceptance" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church–Turing_thesis