Cyan comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Cyan 11 January 2010 11:42:08PM *  0 points [-]

I'm a bit confused on that point myself. Before finding that document, my understanding was that MML averaged over the prior, while MDL avoided having a prior by using some kind of minimax approach, but the paper I pointed you to doesn't seem to say anything about that.