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> being a good bayesian This is exactly what weirds people out about LessWrong folk. They talk about a tool as if it's a religion.
by TillE 11y ago
> being a good bayesian
This is exactly what weirds people out about LessWrong folk. They talk about a tool as if it's a religion.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoIt's a running joke there. The people need to get over it. LW crowd is a group of people studying a pretty specific set of subjects, focused around a single website. It's typical for such a group to develop their own jargon and insider jokes, which may look weird from outside. It's normal.
- eli_gottlieb 11y ago"Good Bayesian" in that context just means being an able user of Bayesian statistics, not necessarily holding any particular philosophical belief about what they mean.