brian_jaress comments on Outlawing Anthropics: An Updateless Dilemma - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 September 2009 06:31PM

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Comment author: brian_jaress 13 September 2009 07:38:57PM 0 points [-]

Well, we might be saying the same thing but coming from different points of view about what it means. I'm not actually a bayesian, so when I talk about assigning probabilities and updating them, I just mean doing equations.

What I'm saying here is that you should set up the equations in a way that reflects the group's point of view because you're telling the group what to do. That involves plugging some probabilities of one into Bayes' Law and getting a final answer equal to one of the starting numbers.