So, to revive this discussion: if we must distribute probability mass evenly because we cannot place emphasis on simplicity, shouldn’t our priors be almost zero for every hypothesis? It seems to me that the “underdetermination” problem makes it very hard to use priors in a meaningful way.
So, to revive this discussion: if we must distribute probability mass evenly because we cannot place emphasis on simplicity, shouldn’t our priors be almost zero for every hypothesis? It seems to me that the “underdetermination” problem makes it very hard to use priors in a meaningful way.