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Comment by Additional_Olive3318
Reddit commenter on Bayesian updating and priors
Bayes doesn’t shift the priors as fast as it should, I grant you. If a supplier tells you that a crate of 10,000 balls is 90% black and 10% white and you can’t sample the crate but only a sample of 10, my workings out is if the sample is 10 white balls your posterior should drop to 81%. That’s clearly not as significant as it needs to be.AI Verified (Jul 22, 2025)
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Relevant: on a page about the lab-leak vs. zoonosis COVID-origins debate, the quote directly criticizes Bayesian reasoning as insufficiently responsive to evidence ("doesn’t shift the priors as fast as it should"), so it provides a clear enough signal about whether Bayesian analysis is the right framework for settling that question. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1m5pegs/comment/n4hl97l/))
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The author is criticizing Bayesian reasoning itself: “Bayes doesn’t shift the priors as fast as it should” and using Bayes here “would be a mistake.” In this COVID-origins debate thread, that strongly implies they do not see Bayesian analysis as the right framework for settling the question. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1m5pegs/comment/n4hl97l/))
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Reddit’s comment page and JSON endpoint show that user Additional_Olive3318 posted comment n4hl97l containing the exact quoted text, and the JSON records `created_utc: 1753170809`, consistent with 2025-07-22 UTC. So the quote is real, verbatim, correctly attributed, and the supplied source URL is correct. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/1m5pegs/comment/n4hl97l/))
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