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

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Comment by Cole Wyeth - Arguably, using Bayesianism to evaluate schools of epistemology (which may not be Bayesian) is a type error. However, I think I still endorse assigning tentative probabilities to beliefs about epistemology and updating them by Bayes rule in practice, so I think I don't have a full answer for you (only a bunch of disorganized thoughts; it's a deep question).

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It's not quite clear to me what you're getting at.

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