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Manfred comments on Top-Down and Bottom-Up Logical Probabilities - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: Manfred 22 July 2014 08:53AM

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Comment author: Manfred 22 July 2014 11:24:32PM 0 points [-]

They both involve a starting probability distribution modified by iterated consistency checks.

This part is a bit misleading because there's nothing special about having a starting distribution and updating it (thought that's definitely a bottom-up trait). It's also okay to create the logical probability function all at once, or through Monte Carlo sampling, or other weird stuff we haven't thought up yet.