thomblake comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 05 May 2011 04:21PM

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Comment author: thomblake 05 May 2011 08:30:12PM 0 points [-]

In fact you can prove that the addition of "around age 80" exactly counteracts the boost that the augmented theory gets for successfully post-dicting that people die around age 80.

Somehow I missed that as a relevant fact when recently trying to explain this stuff to a Popperian. Thanks!