RE: Evolution of Beliefs and Preferences

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Jun 15 2003 - 18:53:13 MDT

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    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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