Eugine_Nier comments on David Deutsch on How To Think About The Future - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 April 2011 08:50:33PM 2 points [-]

Well, your prior gives you a unique value,

So the claim is that you have arbitrary precision priors. What are they, and where are they stored?

Comment author: Larks 10 April 2011 09:38:21PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, I haven't been very clear. A perfect bayesian agent would have a unique real number to represent it's level of belief in every hypothesis.

The betting-offer system I described about can force people (and force any hypothetical agent) to assign unique values.

Of course, an actual person won't be capable of this level of precision or coherence.