Annoyance comments on Guilt by Association - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Annoyance 24 June 2009 05:29PM

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Comment author: Annoyance 25 June 2009 01:50:18PM 1 point [-]

The statement "If P, then Q. Q. P is not ruled out." is correct logic. But it conveys very little information.

Comment author: MichaelBishop 25 June 2009 07:12:37PM *  1 point [-]

How much information is conveyed, the amount we need to update our prior for P, upon learning Q, may be considerable. It depends on p(Q|P) and p(Q|~P)