orthonormal comments on Bead Jar Guesses - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Alicorn 04 May 2009 06:59PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 05 May 2009 08:43:03PM *  0 points [-]

IAWYC, but as pedagogy it's about on the level of "How should you imagine a 7-dimensional torus? Just imagine an n-dimensional torus and let n go to 7."

Eliezer's post on priors explains the same idea more accessibly.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn't notice you already linked it below.