Aharon comments on [SEQ RERUN] Science Doesn't Trust Your Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Aharon 05 May 2012 08:10:03AM 12 points [-]

Science is built around the assumption that you're too stupid and self-deceiving to just use Solomonoff induction. After all, if it was that simple, we wouldn't need a social process of science... right?

Seeing how often overconfidence bias is brought up as a problem, and how the rationality camps etc. are implemented to battle this bias, among others, this assumption doesn't seem to be a bad starting point.