HalFinney comments on Priors as Mathematical Objects - Less Wrong

24 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 12 April 2007 03:24AM

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Comment author: HalFinney 12 April 2007 05:58:30AM 2 points [-]

I'm confused when you say that the prior represents all your starting information plus the way you learn from experience. Isn't the way you learn from experience fixed, in this framework? Given that you are using Bayesian methods, so that the idea of a prior is well defined, then doesn't that already tell how you will learn from experience?