jimrandomh comments on Popperian Decision making - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 08 April 2011 01:05:48AM * 1 point [-]

Inductive reasoning doesn't lead to any results, ever. No one has ever used it.

Go read Jaynes' defense of Laplace's rule of succession (which is an example of inductive reasoning) in Chapter 18.