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jsteinhardt comments on Interesting talk on Bayesians and frequentists - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 01 September 2011 12:38:13PM 0 points [-]

Thanks for the link. That is a good point. I agree that every useful method has to have some amount of information-theoretic overlap with Bayes, but that overlap could be small and still be useful; we reach most conclusions only after there is overwhelming evidence in favor of them, so one could do as well as humans while only having a small amount of mutual information with proper Bayesian updating (or indeed without ever even working with a Bayesian model).