Yvain comments on Rational Me or We? - Less Wrong

116 Post author: RobinHanson 17 March 2009 01:39PM

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Comment author: Yvain 17 March 2009 11:57:48PM 8 points [-]

Good answers. Also, Pierre-Simon Laplace, one of the inventors of Bayesian statistics, was also an excellent astronomer and physicist (and briefly the French Minister of the Interior, of all things)

Comment author: anonym 18 March 2009 12:02:11AM 1 point [-]

Yeah, Laplace certainly belongs close to the top of any such list.