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IlyaShpitser comments on Some thoughts on meta-probabilties - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: iarwain1 21 September 2015 05:23PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 21 September 2015 05:54:05PM *  8 points [-]

Isn't this just being Bayesian? Bayesians assign distributions to model parameters, and update those. See e.g. here:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/heckerman/tutorial.pdf