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

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Comment author: Jack 17 December 2010 04:30:58PM 2 points [-]

The issue is basically that the idealized Bayesian agent is assumed to be logically omniscient and humans clearly are not. It's an open problem in the Bayesian epistemology literature.