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”.
What’s the anthropic prior? Is this something discussed elsewhere? What is it adding over the Solomonoff 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”.