dthunt comments on Rationality Quotes June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dthunt 06 June 2014 04:22:22AM 3 points [-]

If considering a new hypothesis fundamentally changes the way you think about priors, and the arguments you used to justify ratios between hypotheses no longer hold, then, yes, you will have to look at the evidence again.

I feel a little odd about calling that process 'updating', since I think it's a little more involved than taking into account a single new piece of evidence.