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I have to say that I disagree with the point in your above post, because I happen to have at hand at least one rather definite example of someone who uses Bayesian reasoning, but who has questioned, and continues to question, morality extensively, and has not adopted the same moral code used by 'large numbers of folks'.
Perhaps it might help you to understand Bayesian reasoning if you were to think of it as occuring primarily on the level of metaphysics and epistemology. Even Objectivist reasoning on those levels have little, if anything, to say directly about ethics. The introduction of a moral standard happens /after/ those two levels, and it is entirely possible for a Bayesian reasoner to adopt the same ethical standard as Objectivists, ie "their own life". With a slightly different way of reasoning about how to achieve that goal, there will be certain differences in how a Bayesian goes about trying to /accomplish/ that goal - ie, see our previous discussion on health care - but that does not mean they have no ethical standard at all. To say that seems roughly equivalent to a Christian saying that "Someone who doesn't share my moral standard has no standard at all," which, I think you would agree, does not necessarily follow.
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