timtyler comments on Metaphilosophical Mysteries - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 29 July 2010 07:36:57PM *  -2 points [-]

Re: "there wouldn't actually be be very much special about the universal prior"

Well, Occam's razor is something rather special. However, agents don't need an optimal version of it built into them as a baby - they can figure it out from their sensory inputs.