MrMind comments on Open Thread, Feb 8 - Feb 15, 2016 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 09 February 2016 08:08:48AM *  2 points [-]

Sometimes they come back...
I'm a sucker for Jaynes, and I still think that Ap distributions are a much more solid contribution to the subject than any philosophical discussion of Knightian uncertainty or partition of the data, especially when you interpret Ap to be "the probability of retrieving a piece of evidence that will set P(A) = p".