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by lisper 3224 days ago
> we don't know the prior probability of a random car being blue

That's true, but irrelevant. The problem stipulated that this car is in fact blue, so the prior in its being blue is 1.

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The person being asked what the probability is doesn't know the fact, so the prior probability from their perspective isn't 1.