From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:53:13 MDT
Robin writes
> On 6/15/2003 Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in knowing how strongly you (and others) rate
> > various assumptions here. Two immediate questions are
> >
> > 1. To what degree would you say that the current world sample
> > of humanity arose via evolutionary selection processes?
>
> Human genes evolved via natural selection just like other life
> on Earth. Recently cultural evolution has influenced behavior.
You were just as infuriating in real life ;-) But thanks
for answering at all: that is more polite than just ignoring
uninteresting questions. But I do not discern a great urge
to discuss this issue with non-experts.
> > 2. What proportion of human beings in the United States would
> > you guess to be Bayesians?
>
> There has never been and will never be an exact Bayesian - it
> is computationally intractable.
Ah yes, I should have said *non-exact* Bayesians!
Don't worry about it though.
Regards,
Lee
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