Paul_Gowder comments on Absolute Authority - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 January 2008 03:33AM

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Comment author: Paul_Gowder 08 January 2008 05:52:01AM 2 points [-]

Oh Eliezer, why'd you have to toss that parenthetical in about priors? The rest of the post is so wonderful. But the priors thing... hell, for my part, the objection isn't to priors that aren't imposed by some Authority, it's priors that are completely pulled out of one's arse. Demanding something beyond the whim of some metaphorical marble bouncing about in one's brain before one gets to make a probability statement is hardly the same as demanding capital-A-Authority.