Gray_Area comments on Changing the Definition of Science - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Gray_Area 20 May 2008 01:31:45AM 0 points [-]

"Would you care to try to apply that theory to Einstein's invention of General Relativity? PAC-learning theorems only work relative to a fixed model class about which we have no other information."

PAC-learning stuff is, if anything far easier than general scientific induction. So should the latter require more samples or less?