wnoise comments on Swimming in Reasons - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wnoise 10 April 2010 08:07:24AM *  0 points [-]

Beliefs ought to bob around in the stream of evidence as a random walk without trend.

Note the nice property that martingales (random processes with E[X_{t+1}|x_t] = x_t) acting on bounded space (such as probabilities between 0 and 1) almost surely converge (that is lim t -> infinity X_t exists).