Re: Jaynes on Bayes' Theorem

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 03:32:25 MDT

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Lee Corbin wrote:
> For those who may be struggling, as I am, to understand how
> the world appears divided between the Bayesians and the
> non-Bayesians, here are two quotes from an early book by
> Jaynes:

There are no non-Bayesians. There are only people who understand how
they're using Bayes' Theorem, and people who don't.

-- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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