I figured out the problem. “This is costless in my ontology and expensive in another, making it a good signal of which ontology I believe” is the exact same algorithm that led doctors to go from autopsies to childbirth without washing their hands. It was a way to prove they didn’t believe the silly peasant superstitions about disease and demons.
I figured out the problem. “This is costless in my ontology and expensive in another, making it a good signal of which ontology I believe” is the exact same algorithm that led doctors to go from autopsies to childbirth without washing their hands. It was a way to prove they didn’t believe the silly peasant superstitions about disease and demons.