[SEQ RERUN] Bayesian Judo

post by Tyrrell_McAllister · 2011-06-25T05:09:29.811Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 1 comments

Today's post, Bayesian Judo, was originally published on 31 July 2007. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

You can have some fun with people whose anticipations get out of sync with what they believe they believe. This post recounts a conversation in which a theist had to backpedal when he realized that, by drawing an empirical inference from his religion, he had opened up his religion to empirical disproof.

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