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Probabilistic Reasoning
Reversed Stupidity Is Not Intelligence
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ET Jaynes
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Absolute Authority
Eliezer Yudkowsky
14y
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Update Yourself Incrementally
Eliezer Yudkowsky
15y
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Five views of Bayes' Theorem
Adam Scherlis
5mo
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Reversed stupidity sometimes provides useful information
Scott Alexander
11y
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No One Knows Stuff
talisman
13y
47
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How Not to be Stupid: Adorable Maybes
Psy-Kosh
13y
55
2
No Universal Probability Space
Gordon Seidoh Worley
13y
44
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Kling, Probability, and Economics
matt
13y
3
43
Don't be afraid of the thousand-year-old vampire
Ulisse Mini
8mo
3
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The Generalized Product Rule
aysajan
1y
7
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E.T. Jaynes and Hugh Everett - includes a previously unpublished review by Jaynes of a published short version of Everett's dissertation
buybuydandavis
10y
10
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Draft of Edwin Jaynes' "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" online, with lost chapter 30
buybuydandavis
10y
12
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Frequentist practice incorporates prior information all the time
Maxwell Peterson
2y
0
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The Logic of Science: 2.2
mpr
4y
3
9
Has Van Horn fixed Cox’s theorem?
1y
1
7
Halpern’s paper - A refutation of Cox’s theorem?
1y
7
7
Probability theory implies Occam's razor
Maxwell Peterson
2y
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Do Bayesians like Bayesian model Averaging?
1y
13
1
Help with a derivation in chapter 18 of Jaynes PT:LoS?
alex_zag_al
9y
4
1
Jaynesian interpretation - How does “estimating probabilities” make sense?
1y
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Jaynes-Cox Probability: Are plausibilities objective?
1y
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Is LessWrong dead without Cox’s theorem?
1y
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