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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bjornsing on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:13PM (#25665859)
Reminds me of Jaynes point that IIRC the beliefs of two perfectly rational agents with very different Bayesian priors can diverge even if they are presented with exactly the same facts/information/data...
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by unityByFreedom on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:43PM (#25679773)
Lippmann's time and ours were presenting different facts to different groups.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667943

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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by pms on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:12PM (#25666820)
Do you have any sources for this? I'd love to read more about it.
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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by bjornsing on Thursday January 07, 2021 @06:03PM (#25678894)
I think it’s in Jaynes magnum opus Probability Theory: The Logic of Science.
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