Tyrrell_McAllister comments on What Bayesianism taught me - LessWrong

62 Post author: Tyrrell_McAllister 12 August 2013 06:59AM

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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 13 August 2013 10:06:32PM 1 point [-]

In general, I think anecdotes are way too filtered and too biased as an information source to be considered serious evidence.

We may agree. It depends on what work the word "serious" is doing in the quoted sentence.

Comment author: Lumifer 14 August 2013 01:11:29AM 0 points [-]

In this context "serious" = "I'm willing to pay attention to it".