Student_UK comments on Do biases matter? - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Student_UK 20 February 2011 01:10AM

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 20 February 2011 01:44:24AM 9 points [-]

A better analogy in science would be a maze with 10^10 possible branches. Without considering which branch to take, no one is going to find the finish.

Comment author: Student_UK 20 February 2011 10:56:55AM 1 point [-]

Sure. In reality it is still going to require some narrowing down. But once you have reduced it to a few cases the best thing might be to just guess.