The penultimate paragraph about our beliefs isn’t about Bayesianism so much as heuristics and biases. Unless you were a Bayesian from birth, for at least part of your life your beliefs evolved in a crazy fashion not entirely governed by Bayes’ theorem. It is for this reason that we should be suspicious of the beliefs based on assumptions we’ve never scrutinized.
The penultimate paragraph about our beliefs isn’t about Bayesianism so much as heuristics and biases. Unless you were a Bayesian from birth, for at least part of your life your beliefs evolved in a crazy fashion not entirely governed by Bayes’ theorem. It is for this reason that we should be suspicious of the beliefs based on assumptions we’ve never scrutinized.