Armok_GoB comments on An angle of attack on Open Problem #1 - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Benja 18 August 2012 12:08PM

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 26 August 2012 04:07:42PM 0 points [-]

Can someone explain how an "always return 0.5" bot is not a counterexample?

Comment author: pengvado 26 August 2012 04:35:22PM *  2 points [-]

He's talking about a probability distribution over the set of all bitstrings. You can't assign p=0.5 (or any other constant real number) to each of them: that doesn't sum to 1.0.