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buybuydandavis comments on Foundations of Inference - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: amcknight 31 October 2011 07:48PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 01 November 2011 09:07:07AM 0 points [-]

Sets and quantities are deliberately finite because we have never encountered infinite quantity, infinite precision, or infinite information in our scientific endeavors, and neither do we expect to do so.

Has this been catching on in recent years? I remember both Wolpert and Jaynes had their own Declarations of Independence from Infinity, and it was novel to me back in the 90s, but I didn't really get out much.