gwern comments on Open Thread, September, 2010-- part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: datadataeverywhere 18 September 2010 10:33:57PM 14 points [-]

I recently mentioned Dempster-Shafer evidentiary theory another thread. I admit, I was surprised to get no replies to that comment.

Is there any interest in a top-level post introducing DST? Bayesianism seems to be cited as a god of reasoning around here, but DST is strictly more powerful, since setting uncertainty to 0 in all DST formulas results in answers identical to what Bayesian probability would give. I would like to introduce Dempster-Shafer here, but only if the audience will find it worthwhile.

Comment author: gwern 19 September 2010 12:15:00AM 2 points [-]

I'd like to read about it, but less about the details than why we should prefer it to Bayesianism. For example, how would proponents deal with Cox's theorem?