foret comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: foret 14 January 2013 09:52:52PM * 7 points [-]

In reference to Occam's razor:

"Of course giving an inductive bias a name does not justify it."

--from Machine Learning by Tom M. Mitchell

Interesting how a concept seems more believable if it has a name...

Comment author: robertskmiles 25 April 2013 05:09:10PM 0 points [-]

Or less. Sometimes an assumption is believed implicitly, and it's not until it has a name that you can examine it at all.