Caledonian2 comments on Faster Than Science - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 May 2008 12:19AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 20 May 2008 03:46:49PM 1 point [-]

Yes, but a Bayesian Orthodoxy would never give the Ouija boards a second look. Science is excellent at correcting mistaken beliefs, but if you let your beliefs determine exclusively what you'll look for, you'll never notice the discrepancies between your formed beliefs and the observations.