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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months ago

your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted

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your Bayesian yacht is an outlier adn should not be counted

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to SneerClub@awful.systemsEnglish · 6 months ago
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What Sank the Tech Tycoon’s ‘Unsinkable’ Yacht?
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A Times investigation has found that an unusually tall mast, and the design changes it required, made a superyacht owned by a British tech mogul vulnerable to capsizing.

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    Ok so if hubris somehow becomes a synonym of bayes I’d be all for it

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      bayesian epistemology for sure

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        Well naive bayesianism, as practiced by the rationalists. Bayesianism itself can be reformed to get rid of most its problems, though I’ve yet to see a good solution for the absent-minded driver problem.

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