army1987 comments on What's the Value of Information? - Less Wrong

10 Post author: johnlawrenceaspden 29 August 2012 04:20PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 August 2012 10:34:12PM 1 point [-]

If course, the posterior relative to one piece of evidence can be the prior relative to the next, but usually people are not talking about this sort of sequential setup.

Aren't they (at least implicitly)?

Comment author: Cyan 31 August 2012 02:54:41AM 0 points [-]

Sure, I suppose. But usually there's only one piece of evidence being discussed explicitly, and I think it makes little sense to use the word "prior" to refer to the probability that results from updating on it.