Dr_Manhattan comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 05 February 2011 11:40:10PM 0 points [-]

I think it's another way of putting it, though IIRC the biases are not always explicitly prior probabilities, they could just be a way the algorithm is constructed. Choosing the specific construct is acting on a prior.