MichaelVassar comments on That Magical Click - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 January 2010 04:35PM

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 January 2010 06:40:38AM 4 points [-]

I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop "Rationalist". It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist. We can also use words like Skeptic, Scientists, Popperian, and the like in their traditional meanings.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 January 2010 05:03:43PM 4 points [-]

But no one can be a Bayesian except in the statistical-method-advocacy sense of the term.

Comment author: komponisto 21 January 2010 02:08:48PM 2 points [-]

I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop "Rationalist". It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist.

I think the traditional "rationalist/empiricist" dichotomy is most likely a confusion. I don't mind at all if we end up helping to displace this terminology by spreading our sense of "rationalist".