@St_Rev @GrumplessGrinch isn't that where kolmogorov comes in?
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Replying to @drethelin
@drethelin@GrumplessGrinch Kolmogorov is utterly useless. I'll defer to@meaningness's exegesis there.2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@drethelin@Meaningness Something specific to Kolmogorov or is it all formalizations of occam's razor?8 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin i don’t see how an approx could be useful, but without study i can’t comment specifically.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness
@Meaningness@St_Rev@drethelin Approximations can be useful for comparing theories, lets you do Fermi estimates, that kind of thing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @GrumplessGrinch
@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin in general yes! I don’t see how you’d get a useful approx to K, though.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin question wd be: what interesting property is preserved by the approximation metric?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin while on topic: is lw dead yet? I’d like to write those other 5 posts but not worth it is audience gone.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin then explanation of how jaynes misunderstood cox’s theorem; picked up by EY, this is the original sin >2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@GrumplessGrinch@St_Rev@drethelin underlying a large part of lw’s confusions about epistemology and exaggerated claims for power of bayes.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@GrumplessGrinch @St_Rev @drethelin And then several posts on non-probabilistic formal approaches to uncertainty, bcs >
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