steven0461 comments on How Not to be Stupid: Starting Up - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Psy-Kosh 28 April 2009 12:23AM

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Comment author: steven0461 29 April 2009 08:04:05PM 0 points [-]

What do people here think of the argument from expected epistemic utility?

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 29 April 2009 08:06:20PM *  0 points [-]

Updating your beliefs is not reflectively consistent. Roughly it is, but not precisely. You have to keep caring about counterfactuals, circumstances reached by inversion of any to every observation, so you can't just throw away the prior where it was opposed by evidence.