I’d have sworn that one of the first sequences I read was about improving science by using Bayes to make better choices among hypotheses. On the one hand, my memory is good but hardly perfect, and on the other choosing among hypotheses is related to but not exactly the same as generating hypotheses.
using Bayes to make better choices among hypotheses
That, sure. You can easily argue that Bayesianism provides a better framework for hypothesis testing. But that’s quite different from generating hypotheses.
I think that Bayes is completely silent on how one should generate hypotheses...
http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Locate_the_hypothesis
I’d have sworn that one of the first sequences I read was about improving science by using Bayes to make better choices among hypotheses. On the one hand, my memory is good but hardly perfect, and on the other choosing among hypotheses is related to but not exactly the same as generating hypotheses.
That, sure. You can easily argue that Bayesianism provides a better framework for hypothesis testing. But that’s quite different from generating hypotheses.