dspeyer comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dspeyer 02 September 2015 05:40:55PM 12 points [-]

Then the most important question for any model would be what domains it's good at.

For example: one model approximates the population as infinite, so it gets decent predictions when the number of agents in each category exceeds five (this is rare).

These requirements to apply the model should be the first thing taught about the model.