Larks comments on What is Evidence? - Less Wrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 September 2007 06:43AM

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Comment author: Gray_Area 22 September 2007 09:15:37AM 3 points [-]

Why not just say e is evidence for X if P(X) is not equal to P(X|e)?

Incidentally, I don't really see the difference between probabilistic dependence (as above) and entanglement. Entanglement is dependence in the quantum setting.

Comment author: Larks 06 October 2010 07:14:49AM 7 points [-]

Trivially, because P(X|e) could be less than P(X)