That’s way more work than I want to put into that project...
@St_Rev Well, you can choose any axioms you like? The problems come when you try to apply math to the real world.
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@St_Rev Yes. So, question is how much effort to put into this: whether LW can hear it, and whether it’s worth rescuing them. - 6 more replies
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@Meaningness ...epistemological mistakes have destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth. Something similar going on here that needs debunking -
@St_Rev Except that pop Bayesianism isn’t very popular. It infects only a few hundred geeks, who mostly seem to no-ops due to akrasia anyway - 7 more replies
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@Meaningness Taleb's made a career of pointing out that the Central Limit Theorem is almost never used correctly and the resulting...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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