@schakalsynthetc @simplic10 Oh, sorry, OK! Other pieces critiquing Bayes more seriously: http://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think … andhttp://meaningness.com/probability-and-logic …
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@Meaningness@simplic10 tbh I haven't encountered enough pop bayesanism to even realize that was yr target here. it seems ... silly.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc@simplic10 Oh. It’s a delusion that affected much of the twitter crowd we run in, for a while. LessWrong, you know.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness@simplic10 hm. sounds like what happened is a bunch of ppl suddenly grasped the concept of defeasible reasoning all at once >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness@simplic10 < & rightly got excited about it but got the wrong notion that d.r. equals "computing Bayesian expectations"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc “Defeasible reasoning” is way beyond where they were at.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc One self-educated kid, Eliezer Yudkowski, read a deeply confused, messianic book about Bayes (by E. T. Jaynes) >1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@schakalsynthetc > and started a sort of cult. He was not the first to do this; that book has been inspiring confused cults for 30 years.2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
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@Meaningness hadn't even heard of Jaynes until now tbh2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@schakalsynthetc It’s rubbish; you haven’t missed anything. But it’s religiously inspiring to people who don’t know the relevant math.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@schakalsynthetc It’s The True, General Explanation Of Everything, with lots of integrals.
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@Meaningness such things do tend to sell, unfortunately1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@schakalsynthetc Mostly they sell better without the integrals! But yeah. And the integrals do provide bafflement useful in hooking some.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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