Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Searching for Bayes-Structure - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 February 2008 10:01PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 February 2008 03:02:20PM 6 points [-]

You cannot write a Bayes program that inputs all the right data and generates garbage.

Yes you can. All it needs is the wrong prior. Hence the problem of induction.

Truth-finding --> Bayes-structure Bayes-structure -/-> truth-finding