I don’t understand how you can hold a position like that and still enjoy the post. How do you parse the phrase “my prior for the probability of heads” in the second example?
In the second example the person was speaking informally, but there is nothing wrong with specifying a probability distribution for an unknown parameter (and that parameter could be a probability for heads)
I hadn’t seen that, but you’re right that that sentence is wrong. “Probability” should have been replaced with “frequency” or something. A prior on a probability would be a set of probabilities of probabilities, and would soon lead to infinite regress.
I don’t understand how you can hold a position like that and still enjoy the post. How do you parse the phrase “my prior for the probability of heads” in the second example?
In the second example the person was speaking informally, but there is nothing wrong with specifying a probability distribution for an unknown parameter (and that parameter could be a probability for heads)
I hadn’t seen that, but you’re right that that sentence is wrong. “Probability” should have been replaced with “frequency” or something. A prior on a probability would be a set of probabilities of probabilities, and would soon lead to infinite regress.
only if you keep specifying hyper-priors, which there is no reason to do
Exactly. There’s no point in the first meta-prior either.