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Creutzer comments on I love zebras - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Creutzer 06 February 2014 02:22:24AM 2 points [-]

They are about actual anticipation only insofar as possible future discoveries of materials from the past are concerned. Otherwise, they're about making coherent sense of what has been found so far.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 February 2014 03:47:33AM *  0 points [-]

Sub-sampling seems to be a useful concept to introduce here. Then you can 'discover' things over and over again.