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I am nonplussed at your attempt to lull readers into agreeing with you by asking a lot of rhetorical questions. It'd have been less wrong to post just the last paragraph:
The missing link in the argument here is how your examples are, in fact, winning strategies. You claimed some superficial resemblance to things in the sequences, and that you did better than some small sample of humans.
I disapprove of this expanded definition of "bayesian" on the basis that it conflates honest mathematics with handwaving and specious analogies. For example, "it all adds up to normality" is merely a paraphrase of the correspondence principle in QM and does not have any particular legislative force outside that domain.
I'll concede the point, partially because I tire of this discourse.