there is a lot more fruit hanging a lot lower than people realize, in pretty much every field.
So... why didn't EY pluck any yet? Or any of the forum regulars?
EDIT: It's posts like this that make me think about the potential for phygishness. Four years after this post was first published there is still no experimental evidence that being armed with Bayesianism gives you any advantage in fundamental research, yet smart people like komponisto and paper-machine still disregard the absence of evidence.
It's posts like this that make me think about the potential for phygishness.
I'll get the cloaks. You get the volcano lair.
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