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You mean explicitly base their every day life beliefs and decisions on Bayesian probability? That strikes me as highly impractical... Could you give some specific examples?
As best I can tell it is impractical as an actual decision-making procedure for more complex cases, at least assuming well-formalized priors. As a limit to be asymptotically approached it seems sound, though -- and that's probably the best we can do on our hardware anyway.