Agreed. There's also a connected issue that Bayesianism just isn't that much of a supersecret weapon- Bayesian techniques are used in many different fields. Maybe it would have been such fifty years ago, or even thirty years ago, but today Bayesian reasoning is common.
There seems to be a serious misunderstanding here. (The current voting patterns are completely out of whack with what I expected.) I seem to have run into some inferential distance that I didn't realize existed. So let me try to be more detailed.
I would like to develop a social support structure for the-kind-of-people-who've-read-the-Sequences to pursue certain kinds of research outside of (existing) academia. Such a structure already exists, in the form of LW and SI, for some things (decision theory, and perhaps philosophy in general). I would like to see...
Today's post, Class Project was originally published on 31 May 2008. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):
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