Nick_Tarleton comments on Re-understanding Robin Hanson’s “Pre-Rationality” - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 04 November 2009 07:17:03PM 0 points [-]

Hanson writes: "This paper thereby shows that agents who agree enough about the origins of their priors must have the same prior."

Isn't this really the same as saying: agents that have the same priors (= theories about the origins of their "priors") ought to reach the same conclusions given the same information - just as per Aumann's agreement theorem?

You're saying P ⇒ Q, Robin is saying weaker-version-of-Q ⇒ P. I think.