RichardKennaway comments on Link: Strong Inference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 24 May 2010 05:05:30PM *  1 point [-]

This seems like your standard physics bias. That is, if what these scientists are doing doesn't look exactly like what physicists are doing, what they are dong isn't really science.

Come on guys, this stuff should have died off in the 1960s. Evolutionary biology, microeconomics, and artificial intelligence cannot and should not try to be physics. The very nature of the subject matter prevents it from being so.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 25 May 2010 12:39:12PM *  0 points [-]

That is, if what these scientists are doing doesn't look exactly like what physicists are doing, what they are dong isn't really science.

I don't have a problem with that.

Evolutionary biology, microeconomics, and artificial intelligence cannot and should not try to be physics. The very nature of the subject matter prevents it from being so.

In your view, how should these be conducted instead?