Manfred comments on Evidence and counterexample to positive relevance - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: fsopho 25 May 2013 06:40PM

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Comment author: Manfred 25 May 2013 08:59:48PM 0 points [-]

Memorizing a book might make you more knowledgeable, but memorizing the same book twice will just make you more bored.

Similarly, acquiring new information about the world will improve your probability estimates, but acquiring the same information in two different ways will just make your equations more complicated.