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IlyaShpitser comments on The trouble with Bayes (draft) - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: snarles 19 October 2015 08:50PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 24 October 2015 06:47:49PM *  1 point [-]

but it still works

Sure, as long as you shrug and do what works, we have nothing to discuss :).


I do agree that the insight that makes this go through is basically Frequentist, regardless of setup. All the magic happened in the prior before you started.