Vladimir_Nesov comments on Less Wrong: Open Thread, September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 01 September 2010 10:43:58PM 0 points [-]

People sometimes use "Aumann's agreement theorem" to mean "the idea that you should update on other people's opinions", and I agree this is inaccurate and it's not what I meant to say, but surely the theorem is a salient example that implicitly involves such updating.

The theorem doesn't involve any updating, so it's not a salient example in discussion of updating, much less proxy for that.

Should I have said Geanakoplos and Polemarchakis?

To answer literally, simply not mentioning the theorem would've done the trick, since there didn't seem to be a need for elaboration.