Will_Newsome comments on A Rationalist's Tale - Less Wrong

82 Post author: lukeprog 28 September 2011 01:17AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 08 September 2011 10:56:33PM 18 points [-]

I witnessed miraculous healings unexplained by medical science.

Can you elaborate? Were they explainable in retrospect?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 10 September 2011 09:34:20AM *  1 point [-]

I'd like to second the question. Computational decision theoretic cosmology doesn't rule out statistical miracles and more importantly it's best to compute likelihood ratios and posteriors separately. E.g. see: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/02/share-likelihood-ratios-not-posterior-beliefs.html