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Comment author: thomblake 10 August 2010 02:18:50PM 2 points [-]

Edit PS: I am totally stealing the meme that "Bayes is a generalization of Popper" from SilasBarta.

I'm pretty sure that was handily discussed in An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes's Theorem and A Technical Explanation of Technical Explanation.

Comment author: RobinZ 10 August 2010 03:40:25PM 0 points [-]

Ehhcks-cellent!

Comment author: SilasBarta 11 August 2010 03:31:25PM 4 points [-]

Fair point, and it was EY's essay that showed me the connection. But keep in mind, the point of the essay is, "Bayesian inference is right, look how Popper is a crippled version of it."

My point in saying "my" meme is different: "Popper and falsificationism are on the right track -- don't shy away from the concepts entirely just because they're not sufficiently general." It's a warning against taking the failures of Popper to mean that any version of falsificationism is severely flawed.

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