kilobug comments on Rational Romantic Relationships, Part 1: Relationship Styles and Attraction Basics - Less Wrong

48 Post author: lukeprog 05 November 2011 11:06AM

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Comment author: kilobug 02 November 2011 04:43:34PM 0 points [-]

Well, I would say Bayes Theorem itself is purely logical, but realizing how it applies to updating your belief network and scoring your hypothesis, and then using it that way, especially the part of devising tests that could falsify your hypothesis, is rationality. I knew Bayes Theorem before discovering Less Wrong, I even knew a bit about Bayesian networks in computer science, but I never realized how deep Bayes Theorem was (and how it was a more powerful, more technical version of the scientific method) before reading the "intuitive explanation" and the Sequences.

But of course, the two are far from totally isolated. Words are fuzzy boundaries, not precise definitions.

Comment author: wedrifid 02 November 2011 05:08:24PM 2 points [-]

I never realized how deep Bayes Theorem

It's only 'deep' if you have to dredge it up and out from a pile of bullshit. ;)

Comment author: DoubleReed 02 November 2011 05:23:22PM 0 points [-]

Applying Bayes Theorem is just applying logic to your life. It follows directly from the theorem. That would make you logical.

Or perhaps we are just differentiating from the abstract and the real.