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by madhadron 3120 days ago
Why become Bayesian? The rational actor theorems that drove that in the '60's turn out not to apply if you use a class of priors instead of a single prior, and single priors are overspecific to capture belief in most cases.

Better to go all the way down to decision theory.

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Do you have some fuller description of, or some links to, the work you are referring to?

Also, would decision theory replace Bayesian inference? Would it not rather _use_ it?