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pnrjulius comments on Connecting Your Beliefs (a call for help) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: pnrjulius 05 June 2012 04:08:37PM 0 points [-]

Numerical stability is definitely something we need in our epistemology. If small errors make the whole thing blow up, it's not any good to us, because we know we make small errors all the time.