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Comment author: fubarobfusco 12 February 2013 02:54:58AM 3 points [-]

If I understand the math correctly (this is always in doubt) — In order to be better than Bayes, it would have to be not equivalent to Bayes; and therefore to violate one of Cox's postulates.

That said, it's not hard to imagine an implementation of Bayes substantially better than explicit, conscious, language-based, numerical reasoning augmented with kludgy workarounds for discovered biases.