Anatoly_Vorobey comments on Logical Uncertainty as Probability - Less Wrong

3 Post author: gRR 29 April 2012 10:26PM

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Comment author: Anatoly_Vorobey 30 April 2012 11:07:03AM 1 point [-]

In your scheme you have P=1/2 for anything nontrivial and its negation that's not already in X. It just so happens that this looks reasonable in case of the oddity of a digit of pi, but that's merely a coincidence (e.g. take A="a millionth digit of pi is 3" rather than "...odd").

Comment author: gRR 30 April 2012 11:13:34AM *  0 points [-]

No, a statement and its negation are distinguishable, unless indeed you maliciously hide them under quantifiers and throw away the intermediate proof steps.