gaaahhh. I stop reading for a few days, and on return, find this...
Eliezer, what do these distinctions even mean? I know philosophers who do scary bayesian things, whose work looks a lot—a lot—like math. I know scientists who make vague verbal arguments. I know scientists who work on the “theory” side whose work is barely informed by experiments at all, I know philosophers who are trying to do experiments. It seems like your real distinction is between a priori and a posteriori, and you’ve just flung “philosophy” into the former and “science” into the latter, basically at random.
(I defy you to find an experimental test for Bayes Rule, incidentally—or to utter some non-question-begging statistical principle by which the results could be evaluated.)
gaaahhh. I stop reading for a few days, and on return, find this...
Eliezer, what do these distinctions even mean? I know philosophers who do scary bayesian things, whose work looks a lot—a lot—like math. I know scientists who make vague verbal arguments. I know scientists who work on the “theory” side whose work is barely informed by experiments at all, I know philosophers who are trying to do experiments. It seems like your real distinction is between a priori and a posteriori, and you’ve just flung “philosophy” into the former and “science” into the latter, basically at random.
(I defy you to find an experimental test for Bayes Rule, incidentally—or to utter some non-question-begging statistical principle by which the results could be evaluated.)