lessdazed comments on Amanda Knox: post mortem - Less Wrong

23 Post author: gwern 20 October 2011 04:10PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 October 2011 07:14:32PM 1 point [-]

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I take issue with your Bayes-prayer. I don't mind so much that it seems to be just a normal prayer with some replaced words, rather than being something good in its own right, though I think this would offend other LWers. However, it does violate one message on LW that I've found very important to internalize:

Never confess to me that you are just as flawed as I am unless you can tell me what you plan to do about it.

So, apparently, we're really really bad at bayescraft. What are we going to do about it?

Comment author: lessdazed 31 October 2011 06:56:00AM 1 point [-]

If Bayes is all knowing, that sort of defeats the point, doesn't it?