polymathwannabe comments on Open thread, Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 27 January 2015 02:51:10AM 7 points [-]

I remember somewhere in the sequences EY mentioned that Bayesianism was a more general method of which the scientific method was merely a special case. Now I find this, Dempster-Shafer theory, which according to Wikipedia is an even more general method, of which Bayesianism is merely a special case.

Has this topic been given any treatment here?

Comment author: ike 27 January 2015 02:52:29AM 4 points [-]