paper-machine comments on Putting in the Numbers - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Manfred 30 January 2014 06:41AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 30 January 2014 09:29:48AM *  3 points [-]

I don't think there's anything that says a maximum entropy prior is what you get if you construct a maximum entropy prior for a weaker subset of assumptions, and then update based on the complement.

EDIT: Jaynes elaborates on the relationship between Bayes and maximum entropy priors here (warning, pdf).