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==Transcript== :[A speaker on stage lecturing] :According to Bayesianism, every theory, no matter how ridiculous, has some probability of being true. :But the sum of all theories multiplied by their probability must still be one. :Therefore, I've created a new device: The Bayesian overloader. :Start with some very probable theory that nobody likes. For example, "I will die someday". :Now we set the overloader to generate opposing theories, like "Everyone living will not die", or "Only pumpkins die", or "Nobody has ever died - they're all just sleeping". :The overloader creates hundred of trillions of theories every second. :Because all of these theories get some slice of the probability pie, so long as we generate theories fast enough, the undesireable theory becomes less and less true. :We wait about thirty seconds, then BAM! The initial theory is now vanishingly unlikely! [Flicks knife] :And thus I am immortal! :[Stabs self, falls over dead] :[Crowd murmurs] :See, that's why I'm a frequentist.
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