lessdazed comments on Pancritical Rationalism Can Apply to Preferences and Behavior - LessWrong

1 Post author: TimFreeman 25 May 2011 12:06PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 25 May 2011 10:23:37PM 0 points [-]

Would a similar statement couched in terms of limits be true?

As an agent's computational ability increases, its beliefs should converge with those of similar agents regardless of their priors.

Comment author: TimFreeman 25 May 2011 10:51:27PM 1 point [-]

Would a similar statement couched in terms of limits be true?

As an agent's computational ability increases, its beliefs should converge with those of similar agents regardless of their priors.

The limit you proposed doesn't help. One's beliefs after applying Bayes' rule are determined by the prior and by the evidence. We're talking about a situation where the evidence is the the same and finite, and the priors differ. Having more compute power doesn't enter into it.