RichardKennaway comments on Why Bayes? A Wise Ruling - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Vaniver 25 February 2013 03:52PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 February 2013 05:27:12PM *  0 points [-]

Well, yeah, but... For readers to think “wow, that Solomon guy was so wise!” rather than “that's supposed to be a joke, right?”, the characters would have to have at least some amount of plausibility in their cultural context. (Then again, the Bible wasn't the place where one'd expect to find jokes in the first place.)

Comment author: RichardKennaway 26 February 2013 06:01:28PM 1 point [-]

Well, yeah, but... For readers to think “wow, that Solomon guy was so wise!” rather than “that's supposed to be a joke, right?”, the characters would have to have at least some amount of plausibility in their cultural context.

Like the plausibility of these stories?

It's a story about Solomon's wisdom. Whether it actually happened is not really the point.