Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Extreme Rationality: It's Not That Great - Less Wrong
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An interesting choice of example, given that Bayesian probability theory as we know it (inverse inference) was more or less invented by Laplace and used to address specific astronomical controversies surrounding the introduction of Newton's Laws, having to do with combining multiple uncertain observations.