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Comment author: ImmortalRationalist 13 May 2015 04:24:37AM 0 points [-]

How do we determine our "hyper-hyper-hyper-hyper-hyperpriors"? Before updating our priors however many times, is there any way to calculate the probability of something before we have any data to support any conclusion?

Comment author: ChristianKl 05 July 2015 10:03:48AM 0 points [-]

Intuition. Trusting our brain to come up with something useful.

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