As other commenters have pointed out any given introductory chapter in a book on Bayesian statistics, including Jaynes’, is better exposition than this. I found _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_ very easy to follow and very well-written.
I had a similar experience when I finally found a copy of Barbour’s _The End of Time_ and discovered, much to my chagrin, that it wasn’t nearly as mystical or complicated as EY makes it seem in the Timeless Physics “sequence”. Barbour’s account was much more readable and much easier to understand.
Yudkowsky just isn’t that great of a popular science writer. It’s not his specialty, so this shouldn’t be surprising.
I had a similar experience when I finally found a copy of Barbour’s _The End of Time_ and discovered, much to my chagrin, that it wasn’t nearly as mystical or complicated as EY makes it seem in the Timeless Physics “sequence”. Barbour’s account was much more readable and much easier to understand.
Yudkowsky just isn’t that great of a popular science writer. It’s not his specialty, so this shouldn’t be surprising.