Joseph_Hertzlinger comments on Einstein's Speed - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 May 2008 02:48AM

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Comment author: Joseph_Hertzlinger 21 May 2008 06:07:15AM 0 points [-]

If we take a statistical analysis of the scientists who tried using Einstein's method, what percentage would have been right? Aristotle was mentioned earlier. You can make a case that Marx and Freud tried using a similar style of reasoning without much success.