Fake Explanations(favorite)

Eliezer Yudkowskylesswrong.comWritten 3 min read

Yudkowsky argues that an explanation able to fit any outcome predicts nothing, so saying "because of heat conduction" without real expectations is just magic dressed in scientific words.

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