Eugine_Nier comments on The Fabric of Real Things - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 October 2012 02:11AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 October 2012 08:59:02PM 0 points [-]

The interlocutor shminux is describing rejects the idea that experimental results can be definitive on this question, which is different from the position you describe here.

That depends on what you mean by "experiment". If you mean doing a proper replicable controlled experiment than there is no experimental evidence. If you mean any evidence based on observation than there is experimental evidence.

In other words, there is evidence for the intruder, just not scientific evidence in the sense of this post.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 October 2012 09:24:42PM 0 points [-]

I don't in fact mean, by "experiment", any evidence based on observation. I agree that there is evidence for (and against) the intruder, and did not say otherwise, although in general I don't endorse using "evidence" in this sense without tagging it in some way (e.g., "Bayesian evidence"), since the alternative is reliably confusing.