Is Bayesianism Susceptible to the Mail-Order Prophet Scam? — LessWrong

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Comment by Richard_Kennaway - I don’t think P(my epistemology) is a practically useful concept.

Various people have suggested paradoxes of Bayesian reasoning. The few I’ve looked in detail at, I don’t think hold water. But that’s the sort of thing to study.

Does critical fallibilism have anything to say about itself? If it gives itself a full bill of health, that’s no more useful than the statement “This sentence is true”, which can consistently be assigned any truth value.

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