A while back, David Chapman made a blog post titled “Pop Bayesianism: cruder than I thought?”, expressing considerable skepticism towards the kind of “pop Bayesianism” that’s promoted on LW and by CFAR. Yvain and I replied in the comments, which led to an interesting discussion.
I wasn’t originally sure whether this was interesting enough to link to on LW, but then one person on #lesswrong specifically asked me to do so. They said that they found my summaries of the practical insights offered by some LW posts the most valuable/interesting.
Wow, I hadn’t previously read the RichardKennaway comment you linked. I think internalizing that idea would be massively helpful in combating the tendency to view disagreement as inherently combative rather than a difference between priors.
A while back, David Chapman made a blog post titled “Pop Bayesianism: cruder than I thought?”, expressing considerable skepticism towards the kind of “pop Bayesianism” that’s promoted on LW and by CFAR. Yvain and I replied in the comments, which led to an interesting discussion.
I wasn’t originally sure whether this was interesting enough to link to on LW, but then one person on #lesswrong specifically asked me to do so. They said that they found my summaries of the practical insights offered by some LW posts the most valuable/interesting.
Wow, I hadn’t previously read the RichardKennaway comment you linked. I think internalizing that idea would be massively helpful in combating the tendency to view disagreement as inherently combative rather than a difference between priors.
(something I need to work on)
Thanks a lot, I found your discussion of LW to be enlightening.
Edit: This post is related to the discussion and makes great points.
Yvain has now made a post specifically replying to Chapman