magfrump comments on Open Thread June 2010, Part 4 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: magfrump 06 July 2010 08:18:57PM 0 points [-]

Well then I guess I would hypothesize that solving the problem of a universal prior is equivalent to solving the problem of NOTA. I don't really know enough to get technical here. If your point is that it's not a good idea to model humans as Bayesians, I agree. If your point is that it's impossible, I'm unconvinced. Maybe after I finish reading Jaynes I'll have a better idea of the formalisms involved.