Stuart_Armstrong comments on Why the tails come apart - LessWrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 08 August 2014 11:11:06AM 2 points [-]

What we're doing at the FHI is acting like a machine learning problem: splitting the data into a training and a testing set, checking as much as we want on the training set, formulating the hypotheses, then testing them on the testing set.