Caledonian2 comments on When Science Can't Help - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 May 2008 07:24AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 15 May 2008 07:03:49PM 1 point [-]

But science is so much MORE than that, Cyan. It has incorporated forms of reasoning that are far more subtle and powerful than Bayesian reasoning - which is why poke is mostly wrong, but not completely wrong.

The emphasis and reliance on Bayesian thought is a regression, not progress.