Gray_Area comments on Changing the Definition of Science - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 May 2008 06:07PM

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Comment author: Gray_Area 20 May 2008 06:54:19PM 4 points [-]

"The idea that Bayesian decision theory being descriptive of the scientific process is very beautifully detailed in classics like Pearl's book, Causality, in a way that a blog or magazine article cannot so easily convey."

I wish people would stop bringing up this book to support arbitrary points, like people used to bring up the Bible. There's barely any mention of decision theory in Causality, let alone an argument for Bayesian decision theory being descriptive of all scientific process (although Pearl clearly does talk about decisions being modeled as interventions).