Larks comments on Frugality and working from finite data - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Larks 09 September 2010 08:36:03PM 0 points [-]

Yes; if your theories don't differ in their constraints on expectation, you both can't test the difference and the difference doesn't matter for the future.

The problem is when your theories diverge in the future predictions such that you would take radically different courses of action, depending on which was true.