So8res comments on Questions of Reasoning under Logical Uncertainty - LessWrong
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Yes, the description of true arithmetic is a bit realist; I'm not particularly sold on the realism of true arithmetic, and yes, it's mostly meant to illustrate a way of thinking about logical uncertainty. Basically, the question of logical uncertainty gets more interesting when you try to say "I have one particular model of PA in mind, but I can't compute which one; what should my prior be?"
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I agree.
I see these desiderata more as a litmus test. I expect the approximation algorithm and the prior it's approximating will have to be developed hand-in-hand; these desiderata provide good litmus tests for whether an idea is worth looking into. I tend to think about the problem by looking for desirable limits with approximation in mind, but I agree that you could also attack the problem from the other direction.