posted on February 10, 2020 03:26 PM by
u/TheStephen
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I’m looking forward to the final project in which a student gets to
Bayes out whether Pinker has assaulted children, determine that it’s
likely, and then suggest that the world is getting better because Pinker
probably hasn’t assaulted any children more recently.
The world is getting better all the time, because im assaulting less and less children as time goes on, was not rhe best follow up to The Better Angels of Our Nature.
I had a philosophy professor use Yud’s intro to Bayes in an
uncertainty module. Never mentioned who the author was though. This is
probably one of the less objectionable parts of Pinker’s class given
he’s just going to have Michael
Lewis and Richard Dawkins rant about their popsci books in a
glorified networking function.
I learned from my wife, an ecologist. Her Ph.D. lab was Bayesian (and, I gather, controversial for it). I've always wanted to ask if SSC-style Bayesianism is anything like the real thing... but then I would have to explain SSC to her.
I wonder where we’d be had academics embraced the internet rather
than consider it a garbage dump.
I will charitably interpret this as “My high school teacher didn’t
allow me to just copy all information from Wikipedia”, because I have
not met any academic who believes this. (Except some computer scientists
who want to burn it all to the ground for different, and correct,
reasons.)
Seriously
Biggest complaint I’ve ever heard from any academic about the internet is being required to use absolutely garbage propriety software by their institution
yeah the software universities have to use is absolutely terrible
like, i’ll just use this multi thousand dollar software that can’t be used anywhere but the CRT screen computer. oops, it’s bugged. good luck trying to contact them cuz the company is in a forgeign language
>pablum
* *n.* Trite, insipid, or simplistic writing, speech, or conceptualization.
* *n.* A form of cereal for infants.
* *n.* A diet that does not require chewing.
Gonna keep that one in my pocket, thank you
I’m looking forward to the final project in which a student gets to Bayes out whether Pinker has assaulted children, determine that it’s likely, and then suggest that the world is getting better because Pinker probably hasn’t assaulted any children more recently.
I had a philosophy professor use Yud’s intro to Bayes in an uncertainty module. Never mentioned who the author was though. This is probably one of the less objectionable parts of Pinker’s class given he’s just going to have Michael Lewis and Richard Dawkins rant about their popsci books in a glorified networking function.
So who’s going to write “Steelmanning the Boundaries: Towards a Bayesian Hermeneutics of Post-structuralism”?
Wow, now you can pay to read LW! Truly innovative!
I will charitably interpret this as “My high school teacher didn’t allow me to just copy all information from Wikipedia”, because I have not met any academic who believes this. (Except some computer scientists who want to burn it all to the ground for different, and correct, reasons.)
Holy shit he’s using that awful pablum from the conflict vs mistake thing
Jesus wept
Lesswrong? More like Morewrong
I’m pretty sure slate star codex and Scott Alexander are not anagrams, in that one of them has the letter N and one does not