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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Replying to @Meaningness
I abandoned my essay explaining why Bayes is not a theory of rationality when I realized no one was stupid enough to actually think that.
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@Meaningness He’s a smart, thoughtful guy, and I know that he is, so I took that talk more seriously than I would other LessWrongish talks.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness My takeaway was that Bayes as model of rationality implies that people ought to change their minds, radically, all the time. …>1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness But people *don’t* do that, not even the LessWrongish people, which gives us some interesting data to update our priors with.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness Maybe projection on my part—I thought he was taking shots at LessWrong on the sly. “Maximizing your utility functions” indeed.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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