komponisto comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 December 2010 04:49:24PM *  2 points [-]

I think this amounts to saying: real-world considerations force an upper bound on abs(log(P(E | H) / P(E))). I'm on board with that, but can we think about how to compute and increase this bound?

Comment author: komponisto 16 December 2010 06:49:19PM 0 points [-]