satt comments on Open Thread, August 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 03 August 2010 09:20:27PM 3 points [-]

Bayes's theorem follows almost immediately from the ordinary definition of conditional probability, which I think is itself so reassuringly intuitive that no one who accepts the use of probabilities would worry about it (except perhaps in the corner case where the denominator's zero).