shokwave comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: shokwave 19 December 2010 05:23:46AM 2 points [-]

I still don't know why everyone thinks this is the problem of induction.

It's similar to Hume's philosophical problem of induction (here and here specifically). Induction in this sense is contrasted with deduction - you could certainly have a Bayesian agent which doesn't use induction (never draws a generalisation from specific observations) but I think it would necessarily be less efficient and less effective than a Bayesian agent that did.