ialdabaoth comments on Circular belief updating - LessWrong

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Comment author: ialdabaoth 11 December 2013 10:35:06PM 0 points [-]

It seems like, at this level, thinking of things in terms of "evidence" and "priors" at all is no longer really relevant - Bayesian updating just a way of computing and maintaining "belief caches", which are a highly compressed map of our "evidence" (which is itself a highly compressed map of our phenomenal experience).