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Aware enough to claim that all arguments are smoke screens for people's innate biases. An ideal Bayesian would employ the principle of maximum entropy for choo
by ukj 6y ago
Aware enough to claim that all arguments are smoke screens for people's innate biases.
An ideal Bayesian would employ the principle of maximum entropy for choosing priors [1], soon to discover the problem of underdetermination [2].
Such a person would suffer a death akin to Buridan's ass [3].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_maximum_entropy
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underdetermination
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass