Coscott comments on How should Eliezer and Nick's extra $20 be split - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Coscott 15 June 2013 06:56:06AM *  1 point [-]

It shouldn't go all the way to 0:1 at p=0 or 1:0 at p=1

I am surprised you feel this way. If EY says, "Oh, I put that extra 20 in there," and NB says he has no idea, then I think EY should get the 20 back.

Comment author: gjm 15 June 2013 07:45:13AM 0 points [-]

Pragmatically yes, but if E is foolish enough to say it's his with probability 1 there's really still some chance that actually it's N's. (Suppose E says "yeah, I put that in"and N replies "Huh? I was 99% sure I put in an extra twenty".)

Comment author: [deleted] 15 June 2013 05:52:40PM 1 point [-]

E does also happen to be the author of this post. :-)

Comment author: gjm 15 June 2013 07:21:03PM 1 point [-]

Quite so. (I wondered about linking to it from the word "foolish" but decided it wasn't necessary.)

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