Danfly comments on Bayesian Judo - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 July 2007 05:53AM

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Comment author: TraderJoe 12 April 2012 12:38:04PM *  1 point [-]

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Comment author: Danfly 12 April 2012 12:52:52PM 0 points [-]

Data accumulated using the scientific method perhaps? Once you have the data, you can make inferences to the best explanation. If the theory held to be the best explanation is falsified, that becomes part of the data. It then ceases to be the be the best explanation.