Scott Aaronson, pretty smart guy, sorta seems to say he thinks Bayes is a complete theory of rationality (http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2410 ). Yikes!
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@themattsimpson “1.8.2 Nitpicking” p. 23 in http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf … He’s utterly confused
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@themattsimpson He misunderstands propositional vs predicate and Aristotelian vs predicate and Aristotelian vs non-Aristotelian, inter alia
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@themattsimpson There’s also a slew of passages where he explicitly says that probability theory is a complete theory of rationality.
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@themattsimpson There’s various papers in the academic literature where people point this out, but that never reached LW as far as I know.
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