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Comment author: aausch 03 February 2011 04:06:19AM 1 point [-]

Can a bayesian agent perfectly model arbitrary non-bayesian agents?

Given a bayesian model for someone else's non-bayesian decision system, won't a bayesian agent have a straight forward time of deciding which priors to update, and how?

Comment author: wedrifid 03 February 2011 06:48:28AM 0 points [-]

Can a bayesian agent perfectly model arbitrary non-bayesian agents?

Sure, at least to the same extent that he or she could perfectly model any other bunch of atoms.