Tldr: from Russia, hated reading, was grateful to science, liked clever things, cheats, computers, coded since 9y, was going to become a programmer, read HPMoR at 12, but didn’t tried to solve any riddle, didn’t read sequences until 16y, until 2023 didn’t understood that rationality isn’t about Truth, it’s about Skills. Now trying to generate maximally useful thoughts, post some on LW.
More detailed version organized as Shortform comments thread: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zbSsSwEfdEuaqCRmz/eniscien-s-shortform?commentId=JtpxcmxMt2ycd4K5s
I can remember that long ago when I have read Science vs Bayes I wasn’t actually convinced. Because… Yudkowsky didn’t prove that Bayesianism can actually do better. MWI already was mainstream QM in science. So I wasn’t convinced that I actually should choose Bayes for the sake of my sanity.
I changed my mind after reading about P-values vs Bayesian-likelihoods, sure, I need to choose Bayes instead of Science for the sake of my sanity.
I think post about likelihoods will be really useful if linked to Science vs Bayes. And… It wasn’t in my experience, but EDT vs CDT vs TDT probably also will be good example.