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>> But that's backwards, and not how one does statistics.

Are you saying one cannot use statistics to make predictions about future events?




I'm saying that to make good decisions, you need to make predictions about the right future events. And Rand is pontificating about the wrong ones.


Where is it that they are "pontificating"? They're calculating how long and how far self-driving cars need to drive before we can accept they're safe.




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