timtyler comments on Probability Space & Aumann Agreement - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Wei_Dai 10 December 2009 09:57PM

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Comment author: timtyler 12 December 2009 03:51:21PM -1 points [-]

Just one round of comparing probabilities is not normally enough for the parties involved to reach agreement, though.

Comment author: Psy-Kosh 12 December 2009 03:55:26PM 0 points [-]

Well, if they do know each other's partitions and are computationally unbounded, then they would reach agreement after one step, wouldn't they? (or did I misunderstand the theorem?)

Or do you mean If they don't know each other's partitions, iterative exchange of updated probabilities effectively transmits the needed information?