John_Baez comments on Probability, knowledge, and meta-probability - Less Wrong

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Comment author: John_Baez 15 September 2013 10:58:56AM 2 points [-]

Right: a game where you repeatedly put coins in a machine and decide whether or not to put in another based on what occurred is not a single 'event', so you can't sum up your information about it in just one probability.