PhilGoetz comments on Rationality quotes: April 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 02 April 2010 11:07:45PM *  2 points [-]

Sounds mysterious to me. Priors are not claims about the world?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 02 April 2010 11:11:58PM *  1 point [-]

Not quite. They are the way you process claims about the world. A claim has to come in context of a method for its evaluation, but prior can only be evaluated by comparing it to itself...