paper-machine comments on [SEQ RERUN] Guardians of Ayn Rand - Less Wrong

3 Post author: MinibearRex 27 November 2011 05:12AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 27 November 2011 07:19:42AM 3 points [-]

Aristotlean logic is obtained by assuming every probability to be either one or zero.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 29 November 2011 05:23:34AM 1 point [-]

Interestingly enough most of his fallacies are actually valid Bayesian inferences that aren't capable of producing outputs of 1 or 0 even if all of their inputs are 1 or 0.

Comment author: James_Blair 28 November 2011 02:01:19AM 0 points [-]

This is particularly interesting in light of how 1 and 0 "work" within a bayesian context.