TsviBT comments on Building Phenomenological Bridges - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TsviBT 23 December 2013 04:06:48AM *  11 points [-]

TL;DR: To do induction, you need to calculate P(Hypothesis, given Observation). By Bayes,

But how do we calculate ? How do we go from hypotheses to predicted observations, given that actual observations made by an agent are not internal features of a hypotheses, but rather are data coming from a totally different part of the agent?

(Edit: But seriously, read the post, it is awesome.)