Vladimir_Nesov comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 August 2010 09:09:28PM *  2 points [-]

Evidence isn't usually something you "include" in your model of the world, it's something you use to categorize models of the world into correct and incorrect ones. Evidence is usually something not interesting in itself, but interesting instrumentally because of the things it's connected to (caused by).