gwern comments on On accepting an argument if you have limited computational power. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 12 January 2012 09:52:44PM 0 points [-]

That you can demand testing in many real world scenarios, a heuristic not always usable.

As a natural scientist, I would refuse to accept untestable models. Feel free to point out where this fails in any scenario that matters.

Comment author: gwern 12 January 2012 10:43:34PM 0 points [-]

<insert standard anti-logical positivism argument like 'how do you test unreproducible events like "human history"?'>