khafra comments on The Strong Occam's Razor - Less Wrong

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Comment author: khafra 12 November 2010 04:30:28PM 1 point [-]

Counting the genesis of the theory into its likelihood sounds a lot like couting the stopping condition of repeated trials.

Comment author: anonym 13 November 2010 03:30:35AM 0 points [-]

I meant something closer to determining whether the process by which a theory was created was a rational process based on evidence. "Odin create physics" is clearly not in that category, and neither is the torture box hypothesis.