cupholder comments on Open Thread: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cupholder 07 July 2010 07:20:15AM 1 point [-]

But if we start with a prior over all possible six-sided dice and do Bayesian updating, we get a different answer that diverges from fairness more and more as the number of throws goes to infinity!

In this example, what information are we Bayesian updating on?