army1987 comments on What Bayesianism taught me - LessWrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 August 2013 06:59:30PM 6 points [-]

Honestly, I feel like if Eliezer had left out any mention of the math of Bayes' Theorem from the sequences, I would be no worse off. The seven statements you wrote seem fairly self-evident by themselves. I don't feel like I need to read that P(A|B) > P(A) or whatever to internalize them.

For me, reading the first chapter of Probability Theory by Jaynes showed me that what thus far had only been a vague intuition of mine (that neither what Yvain calls Aristotelianism nor what Yvain calls Anton-Wilsonism were the full story) actually had a rigorous quantitative form that can be derived mathematically from a few entirely reasonable desiderata, which did put it on a much more solid ground in my mind.