Manfred comments on Counterfactual Calculation and Observational Knowledge - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Vladimir_Nesov 31 January 2011 04:28PM

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Comment author: Manfred 01 February 2011 12:45:36PM 0 points [-]

True, but I'd like to jump in and say that you can still make a probability estimate with limited information - that's the whole point of having probabilities, after all. If you had unlimited information it wouldn't be much of a probability.