@Meaningness even if this meaning differs from the usual "advocate or user of methods that use bayes' theorem in a formal manner" meaning

@tipsfromkatee My informants suggest that the meaning (in the lw context) is much broader than that. They may be mistaken...

@Meaningness ...your informants are mistaken if they say the real meaning in the lw context is much broader

@tipsfromkatee Yes, well, I was skeptical too! :-) But I still don't see how you can apply Bayes in any but a few narrow situations.

@Meaningness the point isn't always to apply it, but to use it as a framework to think about what one does apply

@Meaningness e.g. one doesn't use quantum field theory to predict the motion of ordinary objects, but any shortcuts one uses to predict...

@Meaningness ...such motion must yield accurate results in any universe described (on a much deeper level) by quantum field theory

@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??

@Meaningness @MindfulBeginner I mean I get the adoration of thousands already of course but that doesn't buy cat food

@St_Rev @MindfulBeginner You need an impressive hat, and to talk very slowly in a deep, gentle, patronizing voice.

@Meaningness @St_Rev @MindfulBeginner He's got an impressive hat already. It's got a red bow.

@Awbery @St_Rev @MindfulBeginner Does it have gravitas? You got to have gravitas to be financially successful in the religion business.

@meaningness @St_Rev @MindfulBeginner Any hat that levitates has gravitas.

@Meaningness my priors say that people generally don't argue that bayesianism means being hip

@Meaningness Most religious adherents have no idea what their religion actually claims to be about. So what actually makes a religion?