ToKCast Ep 198: Bayesianism
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Sep 12, 2023 Explore the different aspects of Bayesianism, including Bayes' Theorem, Bayesian Statistics, Bayesian Reasoning, and Bayesian Epistemology. Dive into topics such as substrate independence, expliclt knowledge, explanatory universality, rational decision theory, measurement and uncertainty, and the limitations of probabilities and confidence intervals in scientific experiments.
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What is Knowledge?
- Knowledge is information that gets copied because it solves problems and has causal power.
- Explanatory knowledge is the most significant type, providing hard-to-vary accounts of existence and causality.
Knowledge's Journey
- Brittle explains substrate independence through the journey of knowledge from his brain to the listener's brain.
- This illustrates how knowledge remains the same despite changing physical representations.
Bridge as Knowledge
- A bridge instantiates knowledge of engineering, physics, and geology.
- Even aliens could extract this knowledge, demonstrating knowledge's objective, explanation-based nature.