Inductive inference

'Inductive inference hasn't let me down in the past so I have no reason to think inductive inference will let me down in the future'.

Does anyone have an personal stories about how the above example of inductive inference has let them down in the past and how they go about guarding against it happening again in the future?

Why is this in SF?

Originally posted by moonbus
Why is this in SF?

Originally posted by moonbus
Why is this in SF?

Originally posted by FMF
Because answers are likely to be about the human spirit and the human condition and could also be about the part inductive inferences play in forming [spiritual] beliefs and in modifying them over time as experience and reflection take effect.

Originally posted by FMF
[b]'Inductive inference hasn't let me down in the past so I have no reason to think inductive inference will let me down in the future'.

Does anyone have an personal stories about how the above example of inductive inference has let them down in the past and how they go about guarding against it happening again in the future?[/b]

Originally posted by checkbaiter
Isn't this just another name for stupidity?

This Wiki article makes inductive inference clear as a bell:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomonoff's_theory_of_inductive_inference

Originally posted by FMF
Which bit strikes you as "stupidity"? The tongue-in-cheek 'quote' in bold?

Originally posted by FMF
[b]'Inductive inference hasn't let me down in the past so I have no reason to think inductive inference will let me down in the future'.

Does anyone have an personal stories about how the above example of inductive inference has let them down in the past and how they go about guarding against it happening again in the future?[/b]

Originally posted by whodey
I've found my inductive inference to be 100% right all the time! 😵

Originally posted by checkbaiter
I was referring to this....

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-inductive-reasoning.html

Originally posted by FMF
Which ones strike you as "stupidity"?

Originally posted by checkbaiter
As far as the examples? All the ones where people assume.

Originally posted by FMF
Do you have any story about how inductive inference has let you down in the past and how you have gone about guarding against it happening again in the future?