Optimal in what sense? Bayes' rule is just an identity - a decomposition of one ...

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Optimal in what sense? Bayes' rule is just an identity - a decomposition of one distribution into the product of two. Decomposing the posterior in this way says nothing about the complexity of the distribution itself.