PhilGoetz comments on Updating, part 1: When can you change your mind? The binary model - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 13 May 2010 10:02:33PM *  1 point [-]

Bayesians should not answer ½. Nobody should answer ½: that's the wrong answer.

If your interpretation of the word "credence" leads you to answer ½, you are fighting with the rest of the community over the definition of the concept of subjective probability.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 14 May 2010 04:32:41AM 0 points [-]

Does "the community" mean some scientific community outside of LessWrong? Because LW seems split on the issue.

Comment author: timtyler 14 May 2010 08:35:24AM 0 points [-]

Well, yes, sure. "That's just peanuts to space".