shminux comments on Stupid Questions December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shminux 08 December 2014 09:15:28PM 9 points [-]

If you are doing reference class forecasting, you need at least a few members in your reference class and a few outside of it, together with the reasons why some are in and others out. If you are generalizing from one example, then, well...