Jack comments on Open Thread: February 2010, part 2 - Less Wrong

10 Post author: CronoDAS 16 February 2010 08:29AM

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Comment author: Jack 23 February 2010 09:09:52PM *  -1 points [-]

Edit: Yeah, I was being dumb.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 23 February 2010 09:26:57PM 0 points [-]

Where A = "events occur" and B = "events are predicted", you're saying P(A and B) < P(A). Warrigal is saying it would be counterintuitive if P(A|B) < P(B).