army1987 comments on How Bayes' theorem is consistent with Solomonoff induction - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Alex_Altair 09 July 2012 10:16PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 11 July 2012 08:30:36AM 1 point [-]

Solomonoff induction as opposed to what? Is there any choice of priors which does contradict Bayes' theorem?

Comment author: Alex_Altair 11 July 2012 06:44:53PM 3 points [-]

Solomonoff induction is more than a choice of priors. It's also a method of finding all possible hypotheses, and a method of computing likelihoods. It's an entire system of reasoning.