{"id":2080,"date":"2017-02-26T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:05:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:05:51","slug":"the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bayes-Structure in the Form of a Riddle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wingers say torture is wrong because the victim will say whatever you want to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Right-wingers say torture is right because the villain will tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: What happens when you torture someone who only tells the truth?<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong>: They'll make noises in accordance with their personal trade-off between describing reality in clear language, and pain.<\/p>\n<p>This is the whole of the Bayes-structure; the rest is commentary. Now go and study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wingers say torture is wrong because the victim will say whatever you want to hear. Right-wingers say torture is right because the villain will tell the truth. Q: What happens when you torture someone who only tells the truth? A: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/the-bayes-structure-in-the-form-of-a-riddle\/\">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":[1],"tags":[90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}