Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Bayesianism for Humans - Less Wrong

52 Post author: ChrisHallquist 29 October 2013 11:54PM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 29 October 2013 04:58:20PM 2 points [-]

I want to like that post, because the formatting is so much tidier than the formatting on my post, but I actually disagree with the first two points. I'm in favor of just rolling with the fact that "Bayesian evidence" isn't what we ordinarily mean by "evidence," as useful as the former is. Also, Eliezer's "I don't know" post misses the pragmatics of saying, "I don't know"; we say "I don't know" if we don't have any information the other person is going to care about (the other person usually won't care that there are 10-1000 apples in a tree outside).

Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 29 October 2013 06:26:47PM *  1 point [-]

The problem isn't with "I don't know", but with "I don't know anything about that." I agree that "I don't know" is useful.