stcredzero comments on [HPMOR][Possible Spoilers] Gedankenexperiment: Time Turner Meta-Informational Relativity - Less Wrong

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Comment author: stcredzero 05 July 2013 10:46:51PM 1 point [-]

All information is probabilistic, Bayesian.

Is there a rigorous argument for this, or is this just a very powerful way of modeling the world?

Comment author: TobyBartels 06 July 2013 05:12:16PM *  0 points [-]

In discussions here (ETA: meaning, in the Less Wrong community), I mostly take it for granted that people have adopted the Bayesian perspective promoted in Eliezer's sequences. I think that one can make a pretty good argument (although mathematical rigour is too much to ask for) that receiving information through one's senses can never be enough to justify absolute certainty about anything external. But I'd rather not try to make it here (ETA: meaning, in this discussion thread).

Comment author: linkhyrule5 06 July 2013 12:32:58AM 0 points [-]

It's more that Bayesian Analysis is a technique you can apply on anything, and under certain conditions is useful.