jsalvatier comments on Dutch Books and Decision Theory: An Introduction to a Long Conversation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jack 21 December 2010 05:45:42PM *  2 points [-]

Again, I don't have the book!

I realize there are many plausible ways of justifying these results, the vast majority of which I have never read and larges classes of which I may have never read. I was particularly interested in arguments in the Dutch book areaspace but I am of course interested in other ways of doing it. I'm trying to talk about the foundations of our epistemology, the most prominent of which appears to be these Dutch book arguments. I want to know if there is a good way to interpret them or revise them. If they are unsalvageable then I would like to know that. I am interested in alternative justifications and the degree to which they preserve the Dutch book argument's structure and the degree to which they don't. I haven't given a specification of the problem. I've picked a concept which has some problems and suggested we talk about it and work on it.

So why don't you just explain how Myerson's argument works.

Comment author: jsalvatier 23 December 2010 11:33:16PM 0 points [-]

This is not as clear as it could be in your original post. It might be helpful for others if you add an introduction that explicitly says what your aim is.