#41 - Parenting, Epistemology, and EA (w/ Lulie Tanett)
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The Perniciousness of Bayesianism
There's just a very elite exclusionary Streak of Bayesianism and I'm not saying the people use it that way. Bringing to bear huge amounts of mathematical formalism to talk about what you're justified and like believing Based on the past just strikes me as like Incredibly annoying and I really really dislike it. Those who have invested the time to learn Bayes rule and learn the theorems Don't want to acknowledge that it's all for nothing because they want to use it. And so there's this like Infinite rabbit hole you could go into the land of probability and learning things like solomon of induction and how you actually do Posterior inference and stuff, which is completely legitimate
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