Epiphany comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: Epiphany 02 December 2012 02:10:27AM 0 points [-]

Well, you can, but it would be a waste of time.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 December 2012 02:13:01AM *  3 points [-]

No, I'm pretty certain you can't. You can't even formulate truth conditions for correctness of such an evaluation. Only in very special circumstances getting to that point would be plausible (when a conclusion is mostly determined by data that is received in an explicit form or if you work with a formalizable specification of a situation, as in probability theory problems; this is not what I meant by "informal beliefs").