Caledonian2 comments on Beautiful Probability - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 January 2008 07:19AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 15 January 2008 04:52:44AM 2 points [-]

But it seems to me that stopping at a desired result is implicitly the same as "throwing out" other possible results

You did not speak about throwing out possible results. You spoke of throwing out data that went against the desired conclusion.

These are very, very different actions, with different implications.