Jack comments on Existential Risk and Public Relations - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 22 November 2010 04:59:50PM *  1 point [-]

including a "model", which is just a name for a complex conjunction of hypotheses

If models are just complex conjunctions of hypotheses then the evidence that confirms models will often confirm some parts of the model more than others. Thus the evidence does little to distinguish the model from a different model which incorporates slightly different hypotheses.

That is all I meant.