billswift comments on Some rationality tweets - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Peter_de_Blanc 30 December 2010 07:14AM

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Comment author: billswift 30 December 2010 09:53:44PM 7 points [-]

Test your hypothesis on simple cases.

I would say rather, "Test your hypotheses first on simple cases." If they can be quickly disproven there, you can move on to more useful hypotheses.