whpearson comments on Taking Ideas Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 25 August 2010 05:00:04PM 5 points [-]

Both bayesian induction (as we currently know it) and Popper fail my test for a complete epistemology.

The test is simple. Can I use the description of the formalism to program a real computer to do science? And it should, in theory, be able to bootstrap itself from no knowledge of science to our level.