Comment on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:48:18 GMT

If one wishes. But MW and BM give contrary answers to almost every question, in spite of their mutual empirical adequacy. They're sufficiently distinct as to almost qualify as alien physics -- incommensurate-yet-coherent in the way you might expect the theories of two independent civilizations to be. That in itself makes the act of trying to evaluate and compare the two kinds of model Bayesianly extremely useful and informative. It really gets to the heart of making some of our core priors explicit.

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