.@slatestarcodex is an extraordinary, massive, persistent force of nature, like Jupiter’s Great Red Spot or something.
Read his decade in review and be gobsmacked:https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/08/what-intellectual-progress-did-i-make-in-the-2010s/ …
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Replying to @Meaningness @slatestarcodex
also woohoo he explains what he personally means by 'Bayesian methods' and 'predictive processing' in the comments, so I can finally stop banging my head against trying to figure it out https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/08/what-intellectual-progress-did-i-make-in-the-2010s/#comment-839822 …pic.twitter.com/jgcMuLiKwf
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Thanks, yes, that’s super helpful!
@_awbery_ and I had a long conversation about this earlier today. If we knew he meant “prior experience affects perception somehow” I would not have ranted so much :)2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes -
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I think it's legit to be critical of someone saying "Bayesian" when he really just means "prior experience affects perception somehow."
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It seems that the whole Berkeley Rationalism subculture has admitted that Bayes isn’t actually a thing and they now just advocate taking evidence into account. Which is progress
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It's progress for them. Many others were always for taking evidence into account –– and just never made the mistake of supposing that this was reducible to Bayes' Theorem or any other single formalization.
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Right, exactly. LessWrong was created by people in their early 20s with undergrad-level understandings of stuff. They're now in their early 30s and have grown up and learned some more and it shows.
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EY was 26-29 when he wrote the Sequences.
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