private_messaging comments on Logical uncertainty, kind of. A proposal, at least. - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Manfred 13 January 2013 09:26AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (35)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: private_messaging 13 January 2013 04:23:48PM *  0 points [-]

Then you look for largest probability*utility , which you generally do by trying to find a way to demonstrate A>B which you can do in many cases where you can't actually evaluate either A or B (and many cases where you can only evaluate A and B so inaccurately that outcome of comparison of evaluations of A and B is primarily dependent on inaccuracies).

Furthermore, a "probability" is a list due to loss of statistical independence with other variables. edit: the pieces of information are very rarely independent, too. Some reasoning that 3 is more likely than other digits would not be independent from 2 being a bad choice.

edit: also, holy hell, trillionth prime does end with 3.