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LessWrong commenter on Bayesian reasoning and COVID-19 origins
Is there a name for these sorts of errors of conjunction and disjunction in super high dimension parameter spaces? I usually just refer to it as 'cold reading yourself.'
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romeostevensit, comment on viking_math, "On coincidences and Bayesian reasoning, as applied to the origins of COVID-19," LessWrong, February 19, 2024.
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