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Manfred comments on Open thread, 18-24 August 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Manfred 19 August 2014 11:56:10AM 1 point [-]

We can simplify this even further, to a fair coin versus an unknown weighted coin.

One way of viewing the difference is to say that you have different causal models of the two situations - with an unknown weighted coin there is an extra parameter to gather evidence about, therefore gathering evidence does more to your model of the world.