Note that I was speaking of "Bayesianism" as practiced on LW, not of Bayesian statistics the academic field. I do not believe these are the same.
I believe Chapman is writing a more detailed critique of what he sees here; I will be sure to link you to it when it comes.
Note that I was speaking of "Bayesianism" as practiced on LW, not of Bayesian statistics the academic field. I do not believe these are the same.
I think that's absurd if that's what he really means. Just because we are not daily posting new research papers employing model-averaging or non-parametric Bayesian statistics does not mean that we do not think those techniques are useful and incorporated in our epistemology or that we would consider the standard answers correct, and this argument can be applied to any area of knowledge that LWers mig...
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