[extropy-chat] Engineered Religion-- Your Mom and the Machine

[Eliezer S. Yudkowsky]

john-c-wright at sff.net wrote:
> 
> Let us further suppose you are an empiricist, so you type in: RULE ONE: the rule
> of evidence for any proposition is that it is trustworthy to the degree that the
> testamony of the senses supports, or, at least, fails to contradict it. 

PS: Actually, Rule One is usually phrased as

p(A|X) = p(X|A)p(A) / Sum[s][p(X|s)p(s)]

See http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/bayes.html

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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence