Bias is a systematic error in judgement, something which yields bad results. It is incorrect to apply that label to heuristics which are working well.
I haven’t told you that we are abstractly screwed, but it’s no big deal. We are not screwed, on the contrary, the Solomonoff induction is a consistent algorithm which works well in practice. It is as arbitrary as any axioms are arbitrary. You can’t do any better if you want to have any axioms at all, or any method at all. If your epistemology isn’t completely empty, it can be criticised for being arbitrary without regard to its actual details. And after all, what ultimately matters is whether it works practically, not some perceived lack of arbitrariness.
Bias is a systematic error in judgement, something which yields bad results. It is incorrect to apply that label to heuristics which are working well.
I haven’t told you that we are abstractly screwed, but it’s no big deal. We are not screwed, on the contrary, the Solomonoff induction is a consistent algorithm which works well in practice. It is as arbitrary as any axioms are arbitrary. You can’t do any better if you want to have any axioms at all, or any method at all. If your epistemology isn’t completely empty, it can be criticised for being arbitrary without regard to its actual details. And after all, what ultimately matters is whether it works practically, not some perceived lack of arbitrariness.