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16 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 May 2008 07:24AM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 15 May 2008 08:06:19PM 0 points [-]

Name one that doesn't reduce to Bayes.

Not all rectangles are squares, Mr. Tarleton.

If scientific reasoning is merely Bayesian, why does Eliezer tell us to abandon science in order to stick with Bayes? It seems to me that it is easy to represent strict standards of evidence within looser ones, but not vice versa. The frequency of 'Bayesian reasoners' mistaking data for evidence on this site should serve as example enough.