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buybuydandavis comments on Utility vs Probability: idea synthesis - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 27 March 2015 12:30PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 27 March 2015 08:35:43PM 3 points [-]

I thought one of the takeaways from Bernardo + Smith in Bayesian Theory was that from a decision theory perspective, your cost function and your probability function is basically an integrated whole, any division of which is arbitrary.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 30 March 2015 12:42:13PM 1 point [-]

That makes sense. Do you have a reference that isn't a book?

Comment author: buybuydandavis 30 March 2015 07:27:20PM 0 points [-]

Sorry, no. I never went beyond their book with those guys.