jsteinhardt comments on Probabilistic Löb theorem - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jsteinhardt 27 April 2013 11:05:05PM 5 points [-]

I'm not at MIRI but I was at part of the workshop and my answer would be no (although I do think the result is worthwhile).

Although I would also place Cox's theorem and graphical models on pretty different standing; the latter seems much more important to me than the former.

Comment author: CarlShulman 01 May 2013 12:07:27AM *  2 points [-]

Yes, Cox's result gives a different supporting argument for the use of probability, but didn't introduce new ways of doing probabilistic reasoning, whereas graphical models have had major applications in efficient probabilistic reasoning in practice.