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Sounds like an unreasonable assumption. Either way, it's not about "wrong" or "right", it's only about what can be derived from evidence. Without evidence you h
by jey 19y ago
Sounds like an unreasonable assumption. Either way, it's not about "wrong" or "right", it's only about what can be derived from evidence. Without evidence you have no justification to assign a higher probability to "2 + 2 = 4" than "2 + 2 = 3".
Caveat: It's true that some knowledge does have to be put into the prior distribution. Apparently you can't just bootstrap from a zero-information ("maximum entropy") prior. So it's possible that 2 + 2 = 4 is burned into our brains at birth.
- whacked_new 19y ago> So it's possible that 2 + 2 = 4 is burned into our brains at birth. Yup, there is plentiful evidence... not specifically the addition, but 2 and 4 are innately perceptible quantities.