timtyler comments on Muehlhauser-Goertzel Dialogue, Part 1 - Less Wrong

28 Post author: lukeprog 16 March 2012 05:12PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 17 March 2012 11:50:26PM 2 points [-]

inductive biases are more like a human's than an ideal Bayesian reasoner's

Check out this post by Vladimir Nesov: "The problem of choosing Bayesian priors is in general the problem of formalizing preference, it can't be solved completely without considering utility, without formalizing values, and values are very complicated. No simple morality, no simple probability." Of course, having a human prior doesn't necessitate being human-like... Or does it? Duh duh duh.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 18 March 2012 12:02:34AM *  3 points [-]

Today I'd rather say that we don't know if "priors" is a fundamentally meaningful decision-theoretic idea, and so discussing what does or doesn't determine it would be premature.