But you can go and get info, and then judge, and say, "That prior that I held was wrong."
You're speaking as if all truth were relative. I don't know if you mean this, but your comments in this thread imply that there is no such thing as truth.
You've recently had other discussions about values and ethics, and the argument you're making here parallels your position in that argument. You may be trying to keep your believes about values, and about truths in general, in syntactic conformance. But rationally I hope you agree they're different.
But you can go and get info, and then judge, and say, "That prior that I held was wrong."
It is only wrong not to update.
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.