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> And do you wonder why do you have to go so far back?

I'm wondering why you don't think they count.


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ImPostingOnHNlast Sunday at 5:13 PM

Newer information should cause you to update your Bayesian priors formed with older information.

throwaway1389z01/03/2026

Relevance is relative.

In the presence of more similar experiments, only with pure dogma or dishonesty that one can opt to infer the outcome based on far less similar and even less contemporaneous experiments.