Metus comments on Open thread, Dec. 29, 2014 - Jan 04, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Metus 30 December 2014 01:24:46AM -1 points [-]

Without a simplicity prior you would need some other kind of distribution.

You can act "as if" by just using the likelihood ratios and not operating with prior and posterior probabilities.