fubarobfusco comments on Bad Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

20 Post author: moridinamael 27 June 2013 03:16AM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 27 June 2013 10:21:57PM 8 points [-]

There's a Discordian catma to the effect that if you think there are only two possibilities — X, and Y — then there are actually Five possibilities: X, Y, both X and Y, neither X nor Y, and something you haven't thought of.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 28 June 2013 01:30:36AM 7 points [-]

Jaynes had a recommendation for multiple hypothesis testing - one of the hypotheses should always be "something I haven't thought of".