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Something really odd in lunar crater X9-PDQ-17b

Something really odd in lunar crater X9-PDQ-17b

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Oct 18, 2020
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This week’s two Eggplant chapters begin to explain intuitively why probabilistic rationality is not an adequate epistemology.

What probability can’t do summarizes the point: the world is unlike a casino. What can’t probability theory do? One of the founders of statistical theory, Leonard Savage, gave an example: planning a picnic. You do not have a fixed…

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