Stuart_Armstrong comments on On the Anthropic Trilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 21 May 2011 05:11:17PM 0 points [-]

"I'm not sure why you think there are no constraints on beliefs unless they are paired with a decision theory."

Because any change to your probability theory can be undone by a change in decision theory, resulting in the same behaviour in the end. The behaviour is where everything pays rent, so its the combination that matters :-)