lukeprog comments on PSA: Learn to code - Less Wrong

34 Post author: John_Maxwell_IV 25 May 2012 06:50PM

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Comment author: lukeprog 25 May 2012 11:29:37PM 1 point [-]

Do you know which page of Jaynes you are paraphrasing, by chance?

Comment author: buybuydandavis 26 May 2012 12:39:09AM *  5 points [-]

pg. 144, middle of the page, last paragraph before 5.8 Bayesian Jurisprudence

http://books.google.com/books?id=tTN4HuUNXjgC&pg=PA144

Normally I'd cut and paste the quote, but google books won't let me copy, and I'm too lazy.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 27 October 2012 11:04:24PM 2 points [-]

For some folks, having to click on a link is a trivial inconvenience, so here's the relevant part:

As a colleague of the writer once remarked, ‘Philosophers are free to do whatever they please, because they don’t have to do anything right.’ But a responsible scientist does not have that freedom; he will not assert the truth of a general principle, and urge others to adopt it, merely on the strength of his own intuition.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 October 2012 11:22:33PM *  0 points [-]

Thanks. Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Such is my laziness, that I didn't pay attention to Jaynes' elaboration to the quote, which is pretty good too.