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lmm comments on Confusion about science and technology - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: NancyLebovitz 23 October 2013 12:27PM

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Comment author: lmm 23 October 2013 04:20:22PM 0 points [-]

Well sure, I'd expect the predictions an engineer makes professionally to be more accurate than those a scientist does. I meant if we tested them on the same set of predictions (e.g. recent experimental results which didn't yet have a replication attempt)