MarkusRamikin comments on Bayesian Judo - Less Wrong

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Comment author: satt 14 February 2012 01:01:41AM 10 points [-]

If I were the host I would not like it if one of my guests tried to end a conversation with "We'll have to agree to disagree" and the other guest continued with "No, we can't, actually. There's a theorem of rationality called Aumann's Agreement Theorem which shows that no two rationalists can agree to disagree." In my book this is obnoxious behavior.

I'd find it especially obnoxious because Aumann's agreement theorem looks to me like one of those theorems that just doesn't do what people want it to do, and so ends up as a rhetorical cudgel rather than a relevant argument with practical import.

Comment author: MarkusRamikin 28 February 2012 02:33:49PM *  8 points [-]

Agreed. If this was Judo, it wasn't a clean point. EY's opponent simply didn't know that the move used on him was against the sport's rules, and failed to cry foul.

Storytelling-wise, EY getting away with that felt like a surprising ending, like a minor villain not getting his comeuppance.