thomblake comments on Beauty quips, "I'd shut up and multiply!" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 10 May 2010 02:16:06PM 2 points [-]

You don't seem to understand the concept of Bayesian probability.

Really? Someone who's been posting around these parts for years, and your best hypothesis is "doesn't understand Bayesian probability"? How would you rank it compared to "Someone hijacked your Lw account" or "I'm not understanding you" or "You said something that would have made sense except for a fairly improbable typo"?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 10 May 2010 02:35:04PM 1 point [-]

Someone who's been posting around these parts for years, and your best hypothesis is "doesn't understand Bayesian probability"?

This seems a reasonable hypothesis specifically because it's Tim Tyler. It would be much less probable for most other old-timers (another salient exception that comes to mind is Phil Goetz, though I don't remember what he understands about probability in particular).