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DanielLC comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 4 - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: lukeprog 27 August 2012 12:04AM

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Comment author: DanielLC 27 August 2012 04:27:53AM 0 points [-]

so treating it as unchangeable leads to weird errors.

The prior probability is unchangeable. It's just that you make your decision based on the posterior probability taking into account each decision. At least, that's what you do if you use EDT. I'm not entirely familiar with the other decision theories, but I'm pretty sure they all have prior probabilities for everything.