cousin_it comments on Skepticism about Probability - Less Wrong

-8 Post author: Carinthium 27 January 2014 09:49AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 27 January 2014 12:53:37PM *  2 points [-]

That's a reasonable thing to do, but can you obtain something like De Finetti's justification of probability via Dutch books that way?

Comment author: JGWeissman 27 January 2014 05:19:27PM 1 point [-]

The obvious steelman of dialogue participant A would keep the coin hidden but ready to inspect, so that A can offer bets having credible ignorance of the outcomes and B isn't justified in updating on A offering the bet.