Applications in Bayesian Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

In this chapter, we generalize the Bayesian principles showcased in this book—and extrapolate the Bayesian system away from medical screening and into the acquisition of knowledge, away from clinical decision-making and into the realms of persuasion. In this setting the prevalence threshold is more generally defined as the “information” threshold. We report some of the fundamental geometric properties of the information threshold and explore the “marital status thought experiment” to demonstrate them.