cousin_it comments on Popperian Decision making - Less Wrong

-1 Post author: curi 07 April 2011 06:42AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 07 April 2011 05:43:03PM *  2 points [-]

I'm willing to bite the bullet here because all hell breaks loose if I don't. We don't know how a Bayesian agent can ever function if it's allowed (and therefore required) to doubt arbitrary mathematical statements, including statements about its own algorithm, current contents of memory, arithmetic, etc. It seems easier to just say 1.0 as a stopgap. Wei Dai, paulfchristiano and I have been thinking about this issue for some time, with no results.