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8 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 06 July 2015 11:27AM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 06 July 2015 05:38:34PM 1 point [-]

"So the naturalness of the category depended on the type of evidence we expected to find."

Reminds me of the No Free Lunch theorems of David Wolpert, particularly the basic NFL for learning algorithms. Basically, there is no a priori distinction between learning algorithms, and the actual performance is determined by the "fit" of the algorithm to the problem.