Kurros comments on What Bayesianism taught me - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kurros 04 September 2013 02:16:22AM 0 points [-]

Bayes theorem only works with as much information as you put into it. Humans can only ever be approximate Bayesian agents. If you learn about some proposition you never though of before it is not a failing of Bayesian reasoning, it is just that you learn you have been doing it wrong up until that point and have to recompute everything.