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Comment author: gwern 22 September 2010 03:30:51PM 2 points [-]

How about E.T. Jaynes's "Clearing Up Mysteries - The Original Goal"?

"...But when we adopt the "Bayesian Inference" viewpoint of Harold Jeffreys, paradoxes often become simple platitudes and we have a more powerful tool for useful calculations. This is illustrated by three examples from widely different fields: diffusion in kinetic theory, the Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen (EPR) paradox in quantum theory, and the second law of thermodynamics in biology..."