Pavitra comments on AI prediction case study 2: Dreyfus's Artificial Alchemy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pavitra 13 March 2013 10:06:20AM 2 points [-]

It's only testable in one direction -- if you like, "never" is testable but "ever" isn't. I don't have a formal argument to hand, but it seems vaguely to me that a hypothesis preferably-ought to be falsifiable both ways.