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> Having seen nuclear weapons not used post WWII ... does that inform us about "the odds"

This is what Bayesian prediction does

> save for out of band behaviour by individuals that averted use and escalation?

This is kind of the point being made.

> This is what Bayesian prediction does

Repeatedly, in a reproducible way, for events in the arrow of time? We can test this by going back to 1945 and running forward again?

> This is kind of the point being made.

Was it?

( assume I did a little math some decades past and have some poor grasp of Bayesian statistics )

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