army1987 comments on Right for the Wrong Reasons - Less Wrong

14 Post author: katydee 24 January 2013 12:02AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 January 2013 03:27:04AM 5 points [-]

As Jaynes suggested, it's best to view all probabilities as conditional. P(coin came up heads | what i know now) = 1, P(coin came up heads | what i knew before flipping it) = 0.5.