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wedrifid comments on How to use human history as a nutritional prior? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: wedrifid 12 March 2012 05:44:12AM 2 points [-]

In reality, I think the spirit of the advice is a warning not to under-estimate the importance of your priors: don't consider new data in isolation.

You have managed to extract a rather useful generalizable point from the subject!

As well as this we can assume that the advice also covers the idea of not putting all your eggs (be they epistemic or dietary) in one basket.