Morendil comments on Rationality Quotes January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Morendil 08 January 2010 08:19:10AM 10 points [-]

[...] Probability theory can tell us how our hypothesis fares relative to the alternatives that we have specified; it does not have the creative imagination to invent new hypotheses for us.

-- E.T. Jaynes, Probability Theory

Comment author: roland 09 January 2010 10:17:00PM 1 point [-]

Do you remember where exactly in the book this quote is?

Comment author: Kazuo_Thow 09 January 2010 10:40:02PM 2 points [-]

Page 136 (in Chapter 5 - "Queer Uses for Probability Theory"), in the first full paragraph.

Comment author: roland 09 January 2010 10:45:17PM *  0 points [-]

Wow, that was fast, I can see that you definitively did your homework. :)

Comment author: Kazuo_Thow 09 January 2010 11:11:09PM 5 points [-]

Google Books is your friend.

Comment author: roland 09 January 2010 11:37:37PM -1 points [-]

LOL. :(

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