MrMind comments on Normativity and Meta-Philosophy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 24 April 2013 05:06:16PM 0 points [-]

Also on the Eugene_Nier sentence:

One should update on evidence according to Bayes's rule.

deconstructed as:

4) according to pure morality, the Cox's theorem shows that the only correct way to compute evidence updating is the Bayes' rule.

"Pure morality" here is intended to mean valuing the things that humans usually value, instead of something like prime numbers heaps.