{"id":1844,"date":"2016-05-12T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2016-05-11T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:53:33","slug":"bayesian-gem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/bayesian-gem\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayesian Gem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"text-align:center;\">STEVEN<\/div>\n<p> Garnet, how does future vision work?<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center;\">CONNIE<\/div>\n<p> I was wondering that myself. Profitably acting on information from the future would require <em>changing<\/em> that future, a paradox at odds with our ordinary conception of causality. And yet on the other hand, acting on <em>predictions<\/em> about likely futures is precisely how intelligence works anyway ...<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center;\">GARNET<\/div>\n<p> Better let Pearl explain this one.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center;\">PEARL<\/div>\n<p> Me? But, Garnet, I don't\u2014<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align:center;\">JUDEA PEARL<\/div>\n<p> She was referring to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STEVEN Garnet, how does future vision work? CONNIE I was wondering that myself. Profitably acting on information from the future would require changing that future, a paradox at odds with our ordinary conception of causality. And yet on the other &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2016\/05\/bayesian-gem\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[86,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}