Ender comments on My Bayesian Enlightenment - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ender 26 March 2014 07:25:56PM 0 points [-]

Ideally we want a theory of how to change energy into winning, not information and a prior into accurate hypotheses about the world, which is what probability theory gives us, and is very good at.

You need accurate information about the world in order to figure out how to "change energy into winning."