Nisan comments on Why truth? And... - Less Wrong

47 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 November 2006 01:49AM

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Comment author: Nisan 01 September 2010 05:13:15PM 7 points [-]

there are those who pursue it rationally (with rigorous mathematical analysis) and those who pursue it heuristically (creating a variety of systems and testing them on small samples). [...] both approaches seem to deliver benefit with no clear winner

"Rationality" is what I would call the meta-analysis which concludes that both approaches are equally valid in this field.