Douglas_Knight comments on Why (and why not) Bayesian Updating? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 17 November 2009 01:12:46AM 1 point [-]

We could use a decision procedure where our beliefs about something can only get weaker, and never any stronger, no matter what evidence we see

That is reminiscent of collapse vs many worlds. When you collapse, you rescale back to unity, but when worlds split, they're less real than their parent.