revise one's priors

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1. Synonym of update one's priors.

   If a rationalist wants to pay you a big compliment, she might tell you that you have caused her to "revise her priors"—that is, to alter some of her well-justified prior assumptions.

   2021 August 16, Joshua Rothman, “Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?”, in New Yorker

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   We can follow Bayesian decision theorists and dub what is happening 'revising your priors', or we can think of it as simply an increased tolerance for the side-eye you get when advancing your new views.

   2022 February 10, Sam Haselby, “Fringe theories stack”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2022

   Synonyms: update one's priors