twanvl comments on Results from MIRI's December workshop - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Benja 15 January 2014 10:29PM

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Comment author: twanvl 17 January 2014 02:59:51PM 0 points [-]

After writing this I realize that there is a much simpler prior on finite sets S of consistent statements: simply have a prior over all sets of statements, and keep only the consistent ones. If your language is chosen such that it contains X if and only if it also contains ¬X, then this is equivalent to choosing a truth value for each basic statement, and a uniform prior over these valuations would work fine.

Comment author: JeremyHahn 17 January 2014 03:54:58PM 0 points [-]

The key here is that you are using finite S. What do you do if S is infinite? More concretely, is your schema convergent if you grow your finite S by adding more and more statements? I believe we touch on such worries in the writeup.