The SSC subreddit ponders the difference between Bayesianism and plain old bias

https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/18i7l89/whats_the_difference_between_a_bayesian_prior_and/

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sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems · 13 pts · 2y

Help I accidentally became 100.000% convinced that bacon is good and tasty and now I'm stuck eating it all the time and can't reason my way out of doing so :(

Mr_Blott@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (3 replies)

WTF is this community about? Help an old cunt here

Evinceo@awful.systems · 7 pts · 2y

You mean awful systems (this server? or SSC (the linked sub)?

This is a good primer on the linked sub.

This community is here to share amusement/horror at that community and their associated techno-utopian corpo-cults.

This source of popcorn/dread recently went fairly mainstream with FTX's implosion and OpenAI's near-implosion.

dgerard@awful.systems · 6 pts · 2y (1 reply)

there is a sidebar which even has a helpful link

self@awful.systems · 7 pts · 2y

and also just a shitload of posts to reference. and an archive of a previous iteration of this sub with years of posts

nah fucking impossible to figure out what we’re doing here