Desrtopa comments on Privileging the Question - Less Wrong

102 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 29 April 2013 06:30PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 29 April 2013 01:26:30PM *  3 points [-]

Well, a couple days ago, we could reasonably have assigned a pretty low probability to that exact post being made today.

New things happen all the time, but without a model, we can't assign much likelihood to any specific new thing happening at any particular time.

Comment author: Kawoomba 29 April 2013 02:10:13PM 3 points [-]

Without some kind of model, you can't assign any probabilities period (.)