pnrjulius comments on Infinite Certainty - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 January 2008 06:49AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 10 January 2008 04:56:21PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't make sense to say that this subjective personal probability (which, by the way, he chose to calculate based on a tiny subset of the vast amounts of information he has in his mind) based on his observed evidence is somehow the absolute probability that, say, evolution is "true".

Where does he? I assume as a Bayesian he would deny the reality of any such "absolute probability".

Comment author: pnrjulius 27 May 2012 04:00:36AM -2 points [-]

There are such things as objective Bayesians, though I'm pretty sure Eliezer is a subjective Bayesian.

Comment author: wedrifid 27 May 2012 08:15:34AM 0 points [-]

Subjectively objective, by his words.