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

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Comment author: GuySrinivasan 17 December 2010 04:50:20AM 1 point [-]

I let L(B|E) be uniform from x-s/2 to x+s/2 and got that P(B|E) = where A is the odds if L(B|E)=x. In the limit as s goes to infinity, it looks like the interesting pieces are a term that's the log of the prior probability dropping off as s grows linearly, plus a term that eventually looks like (1/s)*ln(e^(s/2))=1/2 which means we approach 1/2.