Eugine_Nier comments on Buridan's ass and the psychological origins of objective probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 31 March 2013 04:03:03AM 2 points [-]

The problem with this post is that it conflates two issues. One is Buridan's principal about the impossibility of mapping a continuous parameter to a discrete decision in a bounded amount of time. The other is the issue of breaking the symmetry.