Johnicholas comments on What a reduction of "could" could look like - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Johnicholas 13 August 2010 03:48:39AM 1 point [-]

If you sum over all explored X (and implicitly treat unexplored X as if they are zero probability) then you can be arbitrarily far from optimal Bayesian behavior.

See Fitelson's "Bayesians sometimes cannot ignore even very implausible theories."

http://fitelson.org/hiti.pdf

Comment author: cousin_it 13 August 2010 05:37:25AM *  0 points [-]

Thanks for that link. Good stuff.