Alejandro1 comments on Open Thread March 31 - April 7 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alejandro1 02 April 2014 08:07:20PM *  2 points [-]

This sounds related to this "proof of induction" by Alexander George. Sample quote:

So, to repeat, it can indeed be proved that there is a rule—the “Hardin-Taylor rule”, I shall call it — that will, for any arbitrarily chosen function f, correctly predict most values of f on the basis of its past be- havior; that is, for most t the rule will correctly predict f(t) on the basis of f’s values at all s< t.