Stefan_Schubert comments on The Rationality Wars - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Stefan_Schubert 27 February 2014 05:08PM

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Comment author: Stefan_Schubert 01 March 2014 10:39:32AM 1 point [-]

That's very helpful! I've heard a lot of scattered remarks about this perspective but never read up on it systematically. I will look into Tennenbaum and Griffiths. Any particular suggestions (papers, books)?

The unfalsifiability remark is interesting, btw.

Comment author: lucidian 03 March 2014 11:51:58PM 0 points [-]

Hmm. If you want to know how Bayesian models of cognition work, this paper might be a good place to start, but I haven't read it yet: "Bayesian Models of Cognition", by Griffiths, Kemp, and Tenenbaum.

I'm taking a philosophy class right now on Bayesian models of cognition, and we've read a few papers critiquing Bayesian approaches: "Bayesian Fundamentalism or Enlightenment?", by Jones and Love "Bayesian Just-So Stories in Psychology and Neuroscience", by Bowers and Davis Iirc, it's the latter that discusses the unfalsifiability of the Bayesian approach.