Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
You’ve been told probability is the science of uncertainty. It’s not. The math is perfectly strict, but true ‘randomness’ doesn’t exist in the equations—it’s injected from the outside. Here’s why your data models are built on philosophy, not math.
Thomas Bayes, an 18th-century Presbyterian minister, invented the statistical framework that powers modern AI. His key insight: every analysis starts with a prior belief, even in supposedly objective fields. This article explores the philosophical tension between subjectivity and objectivity in statistics, and why understanding Bayes’ religious background reveals the hidden assumptions in every data-driven decision.