MixedNuts comments on XKCD - Frequentist vs. Bayesians - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 09 November 2012 09:28:20PM 2 points [-]

neither the Sun has exploded nor the dice come up 6

Given the statement of the problem, this null hypothesis is not at all probabilistic - we know it's false using deduction! This is an awful strange thing for a hypothesis to be in a problem that's supposed to be about probabilities.

Comment author: MixedNuts 09 November 2012 10:49:44PM 0 points [-]

"The machine has malfunctioned."

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 November 2012 11:01:49PM 4 points [-]

Why, I deny that, for the machine worked precisely as XKCD said it did.