gjm comments on The Objective Bayesian Programme - Less Wrong

13 Post author: cousin_it 06 August 2009 10:33AM

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Comment author: gjm 06 August 2009 02:21:36PM 1 point [-]

Savage's argument doesn't seem to me to be an "argument for using priors" but an argument for interpreting probability theory more broadly than strict frequentists do. (Or, kinda equivalently modulo terminology, for permitting yourself to make betting decisions using tools more general than probability theory.)