NancyLebovitz comments on Rationality Quotes June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 June 2014 06:08:16PM 24 points [-]

Three Bayesians walk into a bar: a) what's the probability that this is a joke? b) what's the probability that one of the three is a Rabbi? c) given that one of the three is a Rabbi, what's the probability that this is a joke?

--Sorry, no cite. I got this from someone who said they'd been seeing it on twitter.

Comment author: soreff 03 June 2014 04:36:45AM 15 points [-]

And what is the probability that one of them is a Prior?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 03 June 2014 12:10:54PM 4 points [-]

Maximally uninformative.

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