paper-machine comments on Personal Evidence - Superstitions as Rational Beliefs - Less Wrong

3 Post author: OrphanWilde 22 March 2013 05:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 22 March 2013 06:12:34PM 1 point [-]

I'm interested in whether the axioms or theorem are even wrong in this case.

Well, the theorem calls for Bayesian agents, which humans are not...

Comment author: gwern 22 March 2013 07:21:48PM 1 point [-]

It says if agents are rational, they will agree. Not agreeing then implies not being rational, which given the topic of OP hardly seems like a reason to modus tollens rather than modus ponens the result...