Newtons theory of relativity has flaws but it’s still a good idea and can be used in plenty of cases.
Is this intended to contradict something in the article?
There’s nothing bad about two people with different priors coming to different conclusions.
People often disagree, np, but if there’s no possible way to agree – if everything is just arbitrary – then you have a problem.
If my problem is that I want to have a successful job interview
That’s not a well-defined problem.
Furthermore anytime I want to maximize the probability of an outcome I also care about a scalar. Why do you think that probabilities shouldn’t be central in epistemology?
Maximizing a single metric has a binary outcome: either you did the thing which maximizes it or you didn’t.
Is this intended to contradict something in the article?
People often disagree, np, but if there’s no possible way to agree – if everything is just arbitrary – then you have a problem.
That’s not a well-defined problem.
Maximizing a single metric has a binary outcome: either you did the thing which maximizes it or you didn’t.