I certainly agree with you that Eliezer isn’t a statistician. I may disagree with you on the implications of this.
“All I’m saying is that, probably, your reasoning approximates Bayesian reasoning, even when the “methods” you are using don’t look Bayesian.”
If by “my reasoning” you mean me as a human using my brain, I don’t really see in what sense this is true. I do lots of things with my brain that aren’t Bayesian. If by “my reasoning” you mean stuff I do with data as a statistician, that’s simply false. For example, stuff I do with influence functions has no Bayesian analogue at all.
edit: there is probably some way I could set up some semi-parametric influence function stuff in a Bayesian way—I am not sure.
I certainly agree with you that Eliezer isn’t a statistician. I may disagree with you on the implications of this.
“All I’m saying is that, probably, your reasoning approximates Bayesian reasoning, even when the “methods” you are using don’t look Bayesian.”
If by “my reasoning” you mean me as a human using my brain, I don’t really see in what sense this is true. I do lots of things with my brain that aren’t Bayesian. If by “my reasoning” you mean stuff I do with data as a statistician, that’s simply false. For example, stuff I do with influence functions has no Bayesian analogue at all.
edit: there is probably some way I could set up some semi-parametric influence function stuff in a Bayesian way—I am not sure.