Why Do Human Beings Invent Priors?

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No one is entitled to their own likelihoods, the likelihoods or functions that tell you the likelihood of getting certain data given some proposition being true. So where do they come from? They come from the fact that we are human beings embedded in the world. Our brains are not blank slates. We have models of the world. And brain as part of the physical universe has opinions. Whether you like it or not.

Welcome to the March 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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