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		jbay808 on Dec 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s Wrong with Bayes Just to be clear why this whole conversation thread is a TypeError, let's say I assign a probability of 99.9% to the hypothesis that the state space of the universe is finite, and 0.1% to the state space of the universe being infinite... ... In that case, how big is my hypothesis space about possible states of the universe?

sooheon on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

If you had a blog of thoughts along these lines I’d subscribe.

jbay808 on Dec 5, 2019 | | [–]

Not as of yet but hopefully soon! Thanks for the encouragement =)

perl4ever on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

What if you assign a probability of 0.1% to the possibility of 2 + 2 = 5?

jbay808 on Dec 5, 2019 | [–]

Then you might have this experience: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6FmqiAgS8h4EJm86s/how-to-con...

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