Desrtopa comments on Configurations and Amplitude - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Desrtopa 22 May 2012 12:46:14PM 7 points [-]

I think we are extremely unlikely to make any headway here. In fact, I have thought that for some time now, and I really should have resisted the temptation to reply to you any more at all.

Since you have consistently demonstrated a failure to actually stop posting when you say you will, I am making a precommitment not to respond to any more of your comments, unless you can answer this question for me. If you reply to this comment without answering the question, I will no longer respond, and if you give an answer I do not think actually addresses the question, I will not respond.

How and why do you think doing science the way you propose will lead to better results, given that throughout history, when people did not refine their models through testing, but judged explanations only by their "rationality," they were overwhelmingly wrong?