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

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Comment author: jimrandomh 19 December 2010 01:03:43PM 0 points [-]

This one is different, in that the evidence you're introducing is new. However, the magnitude of the effect of each new piece of evidence on your original probability falls off exponentially, such that the original probability converges.