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David_Gerard comments on "Dialectics"? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: CyrilDan 12 July 2014 06:34AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 14 July 2014 11:43:20AM 0 points [-]

Dialectics has no real place in the Bayesian framework that Eliezer advocates.

Eh? It's totally about a meeting of maps.

Comment author: ChristianKl 14 July 2014 12:21:33PM *  3 points [-]

Bayesianism means that every valid claim has a probability p of being true. If you look into dialectic writing you will find that the kind of claims discussed are often too vague for them to be labeled with a probability as it's not actually clear what it means for a claim to be true.