MrMind comments on Open thread, Dec. 21 - Dec. 27, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 22 December 2015 08:25:08AM *  3 points [-]

A major weakness of the standard Bayesian inference method is that it assumes a problem only has two possible solutions.

This is a weird sentence to me. I learned about Bayesian inference through Jaynes' book and surely it doesn't portray that inference as having only two possible solutions.
The other book I know about, Sivia's, doesn't do this either.

Comment author: FrameBenignly 22 December 2015 03:30:57PM 0 points [-]

You're referring to how it is described in statistics textbooks. I'm talking about confirmation theory as a philosophy.