Lake comments on My Kind of Reflection - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 July 2008 07:21AM

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Comment author: Lake 10 July 2008 10:14:26AM 0 points [-]

Perhaps I'm being dim, but a prior is a probability distribution, isn't it? Whereas Occam's Razor and induction aren't: they're rules for how to estimate prior probability. Or have I lost you somewhere?