Pierre Thierry

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by Pierre Thierry Jun 5 2016 updated Oct 20 2017

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[summary: I'm a bayesian rationalist disciple of Christ.]

I have been a science-lover pretty much as long as I have human memories, but for most of my life I was a Traditional Rationalist like my father, openly cultivating the virtue of being able to be proven wrong, albeit actually waiting for a mountain of evidence to eventually do so (and sometimes doing it).

I intend to write an answer to How to Convince Me That 2 + 2 = 3's question "what situation would convince you of the truth of Islam?", being a non-numerophobe Christian who knows Bayes's theorem (and actually reads E.T. Jayne…).

I would say that my personal experiences led me to have approximately the following posterior probabilities: