CCC comments on Conservation of Expected Evidence - Less Wrong
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At 10am tomorrow, I can legitimately express my confidence in the proposition "the cable guy will arrive after noon" is different to what it was today.
There are two cases to consider:
But none of this takes anything away from the original statement:
This is because I am changing my probability estimate on the basis of new information received - it's not a fixed proposition.