Vladimir_Nesov comments on Should we be biased? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 27 April 2009 05:37:15PM *  1 point [-]

Maybe you would be happy (or less unhappy?) to know that everywhere in my draft I had written "inaccurate until substantiated" instead of "accurate" before I edited it out.

Well, since the accuracy of a statement doesn't causally depend on whether it's substantiated, so you can't flip the accuracy of a statement by finding substantiation, I don't see how that helps.

Comment author: byrnema 27 April 2009 05:57:11PM *  0 points [-]

So "inaccurate until substantiated" isn't good enough either.

How about "inaccurate unless possibly substantiated"?

Or, "inaccurate unless possibly substantiated or just happens to be true but is unverifiable"?

Do you really love accuracy this much?

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