moshez comments on Beautiful Probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: moshez 21 November 2012 05:47:13PM 3 points [-]

You don't need to solve the integral for the posterior analytically, you can usually Monte-Carlo your way into an approximation. That technique is powerful enough on reasonably-sized computers that I find myself doubting that this is the only hurdle to superhuman AI.