Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Probability, knowledge, and meta-probability - Less Wrong

38 Post author: David_Chapman 17 September 2013 12:02AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 September 2013 10:26:58PM 2 points [-]

What does it mean for a probability assignment to be correct, as opposed to well-calibrated? Reality is or is not.

Comment author: somervta 18 September 2013 01:35:04AM *  0 points [-]

I mostly meant well calibrated, but...

There is something-like-correctness in that, given the evidence available to you, there is a correct way to update your prior. That is strictly not a fact about your posterior, but I think it's a legitimate thing to talk about in terms of 'correctness'.