DSimon comments on Rationality Quotes December 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gattsuru 03 December 2012 11:44:09PM -1 points [-]

It turns out that facts, when viewed as a large body of knowledge, are just as predictable. Facts, in the aggregate, have half-lives: we can measure the amount of time for half of a subject's knowledge to be overturned.


Samuel Abesman, The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date.

Comment author: DSimon 04 December 2012 07:27:55PM 4 points [-]

Facts, in the aggregate, have half-lives: we can measure the amount of time for half of a subject's knowledge to be overturned.

The tricky part there is figuring out which half.