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Common Priors

Edited by Zack_M_Davis, Swimmer963 (Miranda Dixon-Luinenburg), et al. last updated 16th Sep 2020

A precondition of Aumann's agreement theorem and its numerous generalizations is that the agents must have the same priors. Without common priors, the agents can disagree easily. One can justify the assumption of common priors by noting that it would be awfully strange if rational beliefs could depend on seemingly arbitrary starting features of the agent.

See also

  • Aumann's Agreement Theorem
  • Bayes' Theorem

External References

Uncommon Priors Require Origin Disputes (PDF) by Robin Hanson

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