neq1 comments on Conditioning on Observers - Less Wrong

6 Post author: Jonathan_Lee 11 May 2010 05:15AM

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Comment author: neq1 13 May 2010 03:24:41PM 0 points [-]

(1) You're right, I got the numbers wrong. Thanks.

(2) If she knows she is somewhere along a two week path, the probabilities are different than if she knows she is somewhere along a one week path. She's conditioning on different information in the two cases.