Alyssa Hopper

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We don’t allow ourselves to consider every cockamamie theory we can logically devise. Our priors are not flat, but spiky. We assign a lot of mental weight to a few theories, while others, like the RBRRB theory, get assigned a probability almost indistinguishable from zero.
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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