JoshuaZ comments on Book: AKA Shakespeare (an extended Bayesian investigation) - Less Wrong Discussion
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (13)
The point is that these are extremely small probabilities even in more rigorous areas. The idea that one can get probabilities on the order of 10^-13 strongly suggests that something is going wrong here, probably with a few helpings of motivated cognition.