Psy-Kosh comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psy-Kosh 13 May 2010 08:32:27PM 1 point [-]

What were they using for prior probabilities for the various candidate hypotheses? Uniform? Some form of complexity weighting? Other?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 May 2010 06:04:05PM *  1 point [-]

They have hypotheses concerning whether Eukarya, Archaea and Bacteria share a common ancestor or not, or possibly in pairs. All hypotheses were given equal prior likelyhood.