furioustimemachinebarbarian asked: Just read the post on occam's razor linked from your big Bayes post and it's a very clear example of a nebulous idea I've hand waived at in the past. Nothing much to add, just wanted to say bravo.
For those who are into that sort of thing: my big Bayes post from a while back got linked on LessWrong recently, and I’ve gotten involved in a few arguments in the comments.
Covers some of the same stuff we discussed over here when I first made the post, but there was an interesting (to me) dive into what actually happens if you use “zeroing out cells of truth tables” as a proxy for “noticing material conditionals you already believed but hadn’t taken into account”
it took me 3 times reading this post to realized that (wild) meant living in the wild and wasn’t just a casual remark on the longevity of these organisms
Yang Feng with the help of an intelligent Robot of the Xi Clan finally crosses the Material Plane and becomes its Lord, by means of his Warlock-Alchemist identity, sets out on a journey to become a Warlock, seeks the mystery of eternity.
Noted cereal scholar Scott Bruce decried General Mills’ decision to invent a new mascot for Chex cereal for such frivolous purposes, and dismissed the Chex Warrior as not compelling enough to sell the product.
The other two posters all had longer text, one red on white, the other blue on green: VIVIAN BENNETT STILL WANTS TO KNOW WHY IT HAPPENED, and VIVIAN BENNETT: COME WITH ME INTO THE NEW WORLD.
“In the smoking field, if you say Mr. Big, people will know what you are talking about,” says Laura Bierut, a smoking expert at Washington University in St. Louis.
