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Trevor_Blake comments on Simulating Problems - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: Andreas_Giger 30 January 2013 01:14PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 February 2013 12:46:28AM 0 points [-]

I think Karl Popper made the the best case that there are no final proofs, only provisional, and that the way to find the more useful provisional proofs is to note how they fail and not how they succeed. A poker simulator that can tell me accurately how much I might loose is more helpful than one that tells me how much I might win. I can budget based on the former and not the later.

If you want final proofs (models, theories, simulations) the answer is there are no scientific final proofs.

I could be wrong, or perhaps i have answered a question not asked.