Eliezer—Bayesian theory is a model. It isn’t the universe. This is where you will be losing most of your readers—yes, you can express anything in Bayesian terms. You can express anything in C, too—this doesn’t mean the universe is a program, and it doesn’t provide any fundamental insight into how the universe works.
Bayesianism, has the potential to go beyond just a means of expression and become a tool for decision making as well. Expressing a problem in Bayesian terms will lead to insights that will help you in solving the problem. Writing the same problem in C, may not do the same.
I dont know jack shit (like zilch, absolute zero) about programming, but I think there’s a way to explain this. You can express anything in C, and make it functionally representative of a particular model.If you had to model the entire universe that way, you probably would use some structure in your code that is very representative of a bayesian model (I actually mean exactly like a bayesian model.) In this case, your merely writing the underlying principle (which happens to be Bayesian) in C.
Eliezer—Bayesian theory is a model. It isn’t the universe. This is where you will be losing most of your readers—yes, you can express anything in Bayesian terms. You can express anything in C, too—this doesn’t mean the universe is a program, and it doesn’t provide any fundamental insight into how the universe works.
C is Turing-complete, which means Gödel-complete, so yeah, the universe can be viewed as a C program.
Bayesianism, has the potential to go beyond just a means of expression and become a tool for decision making as well. Expressing a problem in Bayesian terms will lead to insights that will help you in solving the problem. Writing the same problem in C, may not do the same.
I dont know jack shit (like zilch, absolute zero) about programming, but I think there’s a way to explain this. You can express anything in C, and make it functionally representative of a particular model.If you had to model the entire universe that way, you probably would use some structure in your code that is very representative of a bayesian model (I actually mean exactly like a bayesian model.) In this case, your merely writing the underlying principle (which happens to be Bayesian) in C.