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pengvado comments on Naming the Highest Virtue of Epistemic Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: pengvado 25 October 2011 12:11:08PM 5 points [-]

I think we've already found a type of problem where bayesian updating breaks. Namely, all the anthropic problems that UDT solves. (UDT doesn't say that bayes gives the wrong answer in those cases, but it does say that asking for a probability is the wrong question.)