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		garbagetime on Aug 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is it so hard to be rational? > We should all know that given a belief about the world, and evidence, Bayes' Theorem describes how to update our beliefs. Should we? What of the problem of induction?

btilly on Aug 17, 2021 [–]

The problem of induction is a problem of how we may create a prior out of raw experience.

And neither logic nor mathematics offers a solution. In practice, however, we do. But, as any parent should know, we don't do it through a rational process.

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