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Comment author: jsteinhardt 02 March 2011 05:08:50AM 0 points [-]

This could be alleviated by making the standards sufficiently retrospective, e.g. evaluate the usefulness of current work in 100 years (which would probably make it more effective anyways).

We could also test these predictions on historical data, although it might be slightly trickier.