endoself comments on 5 Axioms of Decision Making - Less Wrong

35 Post author: Vaniver 01 December 2011 10:22PM

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Comment author: endoself 02 December 2011 10:49:48PM -1 points [-]

If you let X be incomplete like twanvl suggests, then you pretty much agree with my position of using probability as a useful tool, and disagree with Bayesian fundamentalism.

How is a distribution useful if it refuses to answer certain questions? I think I'm misunderstanding something you said, since I think that the essence of Bayesianism is the idea that probabilities must be used to make decisions, while you seem to be contrasting these two things.