David_Gerard comments on My Wild and Reckless Youth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 06 December 2010 05:49:43PM *  0 points [-]

But my hypothesis made no retrospective predictions. According to Traditional Science, retrospective predictions don't count - so why bother making them?

Not checking what your hypothesis would have meant doesn't like science as she is did to me. What is the example you were thinking of here? I am having difficulty reconstructing a picture in my head of what you are calling "Traditional Rationality" without using straw.