jacob_cannell above seems to think it is very important for physicists to know about Solomonoff induction.
Nah - I was just using that as an example of things physicists (regardless of IQ) don't automatically know.
Most physicists were trained to think in terms of Popperian epistemology, which is strictly inferior to (dominated by) Bayesian epistemology (if you don't believe that, it's not worth my time to debate). In at least some problem domains, the difference in predictive capability between the two methodologies are becoming significant.
Physicists don't automatically update their epistemologies, it isn't something they are using to having to update.
Most physicists were trained to think in terms of Popperian epistemology, which is strictly inferior to (dominated by) Bayesian epistemology (if you don't believe that, it's not worth my time to debate).
Heh, ok. Thanks for your time!
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