HonoreDB comments on Probability is Subjectively Objective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lucidfox 17 December 2010 07:46:50AM *  1 point [-]

When you judge those alternate minds, you'll do so using your own mind - your own beliefs about the universe - your own posterior that came out of your own prior, your own posterior probability assignments P(X|A,B,C,...,Q1).

Hehe, "your own posterior".

[strangles her inner 12-year-old]

Comment author: HonoreDB 17 December 2010 08:52:02AM 9 points [-]

Hehe, "your own posterior".

Sometimes you have to pull a prior out of your posterior.

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