MrMind comments on Open thread, Jul. 25 - Jul. 31, 2016 - Less Wrong
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In that case, it's the correct situation that they come up with different prior.
Yes, but he also made a point to always include all background information in the problem formulation. He explicitly wrote so, and his formulas had a trailing term P(...|...,X) to account for this.
It might be interesting to explore what happens to models if you change part of the background information, but I think it's undeniable that with the same information you are bound to come up with the same prior.
This is why I think objective Bayesian probability is a better framework than subjective Bayesian: objectivity accounts for and explains subjectivity.