Roland2 comments on Friedman's "Prediction vs. Explanation" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Roland2 29 September 2008 06:57:41PM 0 points [-]

We believe the first(T1).

Why: Correctly predicted outcomes updates it's probability of being correct(Bayes).

The additional information available to the second theory is redundant since it was correctly predicted by T1.