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Jade comments on Psychologist making pseudo-claim that recent works "compromise the Bayesian point of view" - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jade 09 October 2012 06:04:30AM *  1 point [-]

Infants' behaviors predicted by Bayesian models

There's another argument that Bayesian theories of brains are just-so stories where whatever happens is optimal, the response being that Bayesian modelling is not the same as implying that brains are optimal, the counter-response being that "many Bayesian researchers often appear to be make claims regarding optimality". Finally, there's a call for unification between Bayesian and non-Bayesian theories: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21864419