David_Gerard comments on reply to benelliott about Popper issues - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 07 April 2011 01:27:18PM *  4 points [-]

What I'm meaning to point out is the absence of something with a title along the lines of "Bayesian epistemology" that explains Bayesian epistemology specifically.

What LW has is "here's the theorem" and "everything works by this theorem", without the second one being explained in coherent detail. I mean, Bayes structure is everywhere. But just noting that is not an explanation.

There's potential here for an enormously popular front-page post that gets linked all over the net forever, because the SEP article is so awful ...