A Timely Term
24 May 2023
Tavish Cordero Kelly has offered the term Bayesian gaslighting
for surreptitious updating of a narrative.
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Some may say "Stochastic subterfuge", but Ye point is taken. Bayesian itself dishes a morsel of irony when applied to the Media, as the Calculus behind the tossing of coins typically assumes the use of "fair" specie (and the measuring instruments thereof).
The term Bayesian updating, which is an increasingly popular theory of how belief should be altered as new evidence is found.
alludes to(A generalization of Bayesian updating is derived and thus defended in my article .)