JoshuaZ comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 3 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 15 June 2010 04:12:58AM 5 points [-]

I'm thinking of writing a top-post on the difficulties of estimating P(B) in real-world applications of Bayes' Theorem. Would people be interested in such a post?

Comment author: Christian_Szegedy 16 June 2010 07:40:02PM *  3 points [-]

Funny, I've been entertaining the same idea for a few weeks.

Every time I read statements like "... and then I update the probabilities, based on this evidence ...", I think to myself: "I wish I had the time (or processing power) he thinks he has. ;)"