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LW - shortest goddamn bayes guide ever by lukehmiles
2024-05-10
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Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: shortest goddamn bayes guide ever, published by lukehmiles on May 10, 2024 on LessWrong.
The thing to remember is that yeps and nopes never cross. The colon is a thick & rubbery barrier. Yep with yep and nope with nope.
bear : notbear =
1:100 odds to encounter a bear on a camping trip around here in general
* 20% a bear would scratch my tent : 50% a notbear would
* 10% a bear would flip my tent over : 1% a notbear would
* 95% a bear would look exactly like a fucking bear inside my tent : 1% a notbear would
* 0.01% chance a bear would eat me alive : 0.001% chance a notbear would
As you die you conclude 1*20*10*95*.01 : 100*50*1*1*.001 = 190 : 5 odds that a bear is eating you.
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The thing to remember is that yeps and nopes never cross. The colon is a thick & rubbery barrier. Yep with yep and nope with nope.
bear : notbear =
1:100 odds to encounter a bear on a camping trip around here in general
* 20% a bear would scratch my tent : 50% a notbear would
* 10% a bear would flip my tent over : 1% a notbear would
* 95% a bear would look exactly like a fucking bear inside my tent : 1% a notbear would
* 0.01% chance a bear would eat me alive : 0.001% chance a notbear would
As you die you conclude 1*20*10*95*.01 : 100*50*1*1*.001 = 190 : 5 odds that a bear is eating you.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
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