DanielLC comments on Dark Side Epistemology - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 October 2008 11:55PM

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Comment author: hannahelisabeth 11 November 2012 07:25:47PM 2 points [-]

I think knowing a prior constitutes evidence. If you know that the lottery has one million numbers, that is a piece of evidence.

Comment author: DanielLC 11 November 2012 08:44:59PM 4 points [-]

You need a prior to take evidence into account. If the prior is evidence, then what is the prior?

Comment author: hannahelisabeth 11 November 2012 09:20:12PM 3 points [-]

Hm... You make a good point. I'm not sure I understand this conceptually well enough to have any sort of coherent response.