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AMA | May 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It a Good Idea to List All Possible Priors?

Nicolo mus messi says that basianism is not about the subjective nature of priors, but rather how they are updated when new data comes in. In theoretical physics, this is precisely the case since listing all possible priors would imply coming up with all the poss theories before being able to up date from evidence. i think t at this isa a very important issue. I mean, i wouldn't put it exactly in the words that you put it in, because any good basian especialy when you're oing something like theoretical physics,. Youl tryt let's say you're tying to explain the dark matter, right? Like we were just talking about.

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