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by niek_pas 30 days ago
"Update your priors" is a common expression in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/update_one%27s_priors#English
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Your wiktionary link indicates it is not a common expression in English but instead something "rationalist community" people say.
HN is a rationalist community hangout.
we're reading comments on a post about math proofs
No it's not. Where do you come up with this? Just because you searched the phrase on Google and there's a single result for it on a wiki? Who do you know that's using this expression regularly?
"Common" is an exaggeration.