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AlexMennen comments on Geometric Bayesian Update - Less Wrong Discussion

12 Post author: SquirrelInHell 09 April 2016 07:24AM

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Comment author: SquirrelInHell 09 April 2016 08:50:52AM *  3 points [-]

Of course you are right, but it would just be a linear transformation of the whole diagram, so it doesn't change anything in the result. I've built the diagram starting from a square, so I can't change this easily... just imagine the whole thing scaling on the X axis, OK?

Edit: since two people asked for this, I remade the diagram and now you can put in any values of P(E|H) and P(E|~H)

Comment author: AlexMennen 09 April 2016 05:34:07PM *  0 points [-]

When I drag the dot for P(E|~H), it only changes P(E|~H), but when I drag the dot for P(E|H), it still keeps P(E|H)+P(E|~H) conserved, which is a little weird. I think it would be better if changing either of them did not affect the other.