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YeGoblynQueenne
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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?
ajross
on Sept 26, 2021
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I'm saying that to make good decisions, you need to make predictions about the
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future events. And Rand is pontificating about the wrong ones.
YeGoblynQueenne
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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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Are you saying one cannot use statistics to make predictions about future events?