Jonathan_Graehl comments on Bayes' rule =/= Bayesian inference - Less Wrong

37 Post author: neq1 16 September 2010 06:34AM

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Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 16 September 2010 10:30:53PM 1 point [-]

Agreed, but the priors can in principle be strong enough that hypothesis A will always be favored over B no matter how much data you have, even though B gives an orders of magnitude higher P(data|B) than P(data|A).