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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Ignore Deutsch's Criticism of Bayesianism

Theory of Bayesianism can be used to explain why an experiment may not support a theory. Theories have domains of applicability, and neither quantum mechanics nor general relativity are purported to be true in every domain. If the prior for our theory is really, really good, then the credence that we have in our theory is not going to change very much on the basis of that experiment.

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