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by mjburgess 1709 days ago
Bayesianism can't decide relevance (relevance isnt a statistical concept).

Indeed, "fallacies" are just discrete constraints on a problem like this.

Ie., that the author's relationship to facebook makes no difference to the truth of their claims shows that we need evidence relevant to their truth first.

In otherwords, you're effectively conditioning on the claims being false when you include this relationship.