Oh, whoops, I screwed up there. When adapting my initial write-up to this sequence of LW posts, I reordered its sections. Part 4, which explains the idea I’m gesturing at by “the anthropic prior” here, was initially Part 1, and I missed the inconsistency in 2.3 the reordering created. Should be fixed now.
Though I basically just mean “the simplicity prior” here. Part 4 covers why I think the simplicity prior is also the “well-abstractability” prior, and it does so using the anthropics frame, hence “the anthropic prior”.
Oh, whoops, I screwed up there. When adapting my initial write-up to this sequence of LW posts, I reordered its sections. Part 4, which explains the idea I’m gesturing at by “the anthropic prior” here, was initially Part 1, and I missed the inconsistency in 2.3 the reordering created. Should be fixed now.
Though I basically just mean “the simplicity prior” here. Part 4 covers why I think the simplicity prior is also the “well-abstractability” prior, and it does so using the anthropics frame, hence “the anthropic prior”.