commonplace book redux

everything Bayesians said seemed perfectly straightforward and simple, the obvious way I would do it myself; whereas the things frequentists said sounded like the elaborate, warped, mad blasphemy of dreaming Cthulhu. I didn’t choose to become a Bayesian any more than fishes choose to breathe water.

Eliezer Yudkowsky, My Bayesian Enlightenment, LessWrong, 5 October 2008