halalmoney on Nostr: Perplexity 'thinks' I am involved in engineering so keeps dropping engineering based ...

Perplexity 'thinks' I am involved in engineering so keeps dropping engineering based analogies....:

Bayesian epistemology reframes knowledge not as a binary "true or false" but as degrees of confidence updated probabilistically via Bayes' theorem: when new evidence arrives, you revise your prior belief in a hypothesis by weighing how well it predicts the data against alternative explanations. This sidesteps Gettier-style luck by demanding beliefs be stable under reliable evidence streams, much like a well-calibrated model avoiding overfitting on flukes—your credence hits near-certainty only if the update path is robust, not accidentally propped up by misleading inputs. For engineers, it's belief as an online learning algorithm, tuned for noisy real-world signals rather than crisp justifications.