@Meaningness even if this meaning differs from the usual "advocate or user of methods that use bayes' theorem in a formal manner" meaning
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@tipsfromkatee My informants suggest that the meaning (in the lw context) is much broader than that. They may be mistaken... - 21 more replies
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@Meaningness Bayesian as in P(A|B)=P(B|A).P(A)/P(B) ??? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes'_theorem … -
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@MindfulBeginner Yes, except some people make a religion out of it. Bizarre, isn't it?? - 4 more replies
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@Awbery@St_Rev@Meaningness Bayesian spirituality - This has legs! http://xkcd.com/1132/ -
@MindfulBeginner Thanks! I've written about this at http://meaningness.com/metablog/bayesianism-updating … ; see also the interesting comment thread there. - 2 more replies
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@Meaningness Most religious adherents have no idea what their religion actually claims to be about. So what actually makes a religion? -
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@St_Rev The emic/etic distinction is relevant: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emic_and_etic … An etic analysis of Bayesianism... Fun but shooting fish in a barrel.
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@Awbery@St_Rev@MindfulBeginner Does it have gravitas? You got to have gravitas to be financially successful in the religion business. - 1 more reply
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