Lumifer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread June 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 18 June 2015 06:11:09PM 2 points [-]

There are formalized notions of flexibility for models which generally use concepts like "degrees of freedom". However they are limited in that they don't take account of the "hidden flexibility" stemming from things like the garden of the forking paths or the filedrawer bias.

Theories have additional issues -- like not being sufficiently well formalized.