komponisto comments on Inherited Improbabilities: Transferring the Burden of Proof - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 25 November 2010 03:22:29AM 8 points [-]

(For some reason the post is much longer than that, and makes all those arguments whose purpose I don't understand...)

Such as....?

Yes, the point is a mathematical triviality. For that matter, so is Bayes' theorem itself. That doesn't mean that everybody grasps its implications at once, so that it isn't worth writing detailed posts on.