pianoforte611 comments on The Unfriendly Superintelligence next door - LessWrong

48 Post author: jacob_cannell 02 July 2015 06:46PM

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Comment author: pianoforte611 28 June 2015 05:06:10AM 1 point [-]

I'm sorry, I'm really not interested in getting into an ideological debate or whether frequentist or bayesian statistics is "better" - if you think that frequentist methods are worthless, then the inferential gap is too wide to begin to bridge.

Comment author: jacob_cannell 28 June 2015 08:11:41PM 0 points [-]

Agreed - I do believe that Frequentist methods are primitive compared to modern machine learning.

Also, I don't even have a strong opinion on whether a few years of vit D supplementation in the elderly is going to make a big difference in many health outcomes like cancer risk - the correct comparison is between a lifetime of adequate vit D levels vs a lifetime of inadequacy. I don't suspect that correcting it late in life is going to avoid most of the cancer risk.