wnoise comments on Rationality quotes: September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 04 September 2010 04:42:49PM 3 points [-]

Well, there's also the issue that they're fundamentally the same thing.

Comment author: DanielVarga 04 September 2010 05:26:34PM *  1 point [-]

This is hindsight. In 1948, Shannon and von Neumann were obviously aware of a deep analogy, but nothing more than that. The position you take was made popular by Jaynes only in 1957, nine years later.

Comment author: wnoise 04 September 2010 05:43:52PM 0 points [-]

Made popular by, yes. Invented? Not according to Jaynes, who saw it as implicit in the work of Gibbs.