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Probability

New Books in the History of Science

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How to Ground the Probability Calculus in a Constructed World

The grounds of this entire edifice of probability is in the market and the exchange of betting contracts. And I think it connects to one of the problems that we run into with sort of statistics and probabilities, which are very good at navigating a certain constructed world. The only way out is actually changing the equation of what these systems are valuing and what it is that they're calculating on.

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