cousin_it comments on Bayesian Flame - Less Wrong

37 Post author: cousin_it 26 July 2009 04:49PM

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Comment author: cousin_it 26 July 2009 10:19:56PM *  2 points [-]

Too late. I have already updated to believe that a theory that demands priors can't be complete. Correct, maybe, but not complete. We should work out an approach that works well on more criteria instead of guarding the truth of what we already know.

If Bayes were the complete answer, Jaynes wouldn't have felt the need to invent maxent or generalize the indifference principle. That may be the correct direction of inquiry.

ETA: this was a response to Cyan saying he didn't mean to rehabilitate frequentism. :-)

Comment author: janos 27 July 2009 03:55:30PM 6 points [-]

Updated, eh? Where did your prior come from? :)