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Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:21:10 GMT

That is a good question, and one that I don't have an answer to. Is there one? (you can't?)

You look at the sanity of the theory. How do you tell a sane academic paper from one written by a crackpot (say, you don't look at where it's published and you don't know the author)? Certainly you don't need to go check experimental results or proofs in overwhelming majority of cases. Doing this reliably where absurdity heuristic breaks is claimed as a large part of the Art of rationality. It's necessarily self-referential.

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