timtyler comments on What is the advantage of the Kolmogorov complexity prior? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 16 February 2012 12:38:36PM 1 point [-]

Priors do tend to get swamped by the data - in a lot of cases.

Choosing a sensible prior does help when you don't have very much data in some domain, though.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 16 February 2012 10:17:27PM 1 point [-]

Priors do tend to get swamped by the data - in a lot of cases.

Depending on the complexity of the prior it can take much more data then you'd expect.