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Re:When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, ... by Libre___ on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:34PM (#36495199)
Sounds like what is also called Bayesian inference. Julia Galef did a nice series of videos on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrK7X_XlGB8
Re:When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, ... by jonathanstrange on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @12:55PM (#36495588)
Bayesian inference only works for "the cat is on the mat" examples. In reality, hypothesis and theory discovery and model selection are highly complex and neither a theory/hypothesis/model's accuracy nor the subjective probability that it's true are the decisive criterion for choosing the best one.