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by kgwgk 281 days ago
> If you accept the Bayes theorem

That doesn’t make a lot of sense. A theorem is just a theorem. It’s proved, and in this case the proof is trivial.

The question is whether you accept that the description of the problem in terms of conditional probabilities is adequate, and then whether you accept that the values assigned to those conditional probabilities are appropriate.