PrawnOfFate comments on The Dilemma: Science or Bayes? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PrawnOfFate 20 April 2013 12:08:35AM 0 points [-]

And, if it is the case that mathematicians can be forced to seek inherently weaker evidence when proofs are not readily available

Their inherently weaker evidence still isnt empirical evidence. Computation isn;t intrinsically emprical, because a smart enough mathematician could do it in their head...they are just offloading the cognitive burden.