Manfred comments on Open Thread, July 1-15, 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 05 July 2012 12:16:36AM 0 points [-]

Probabilities come from information. So priors come from your starting information. Which information you label "starting" is completely arbitrary, however - you can't get different answers just by relabeling what you know.

So any problem that you can look at from an SIA perspective, you can also take a step back and look at it from an SSA perspective - it just means labeling less information "starting" information.