MrMind comments on Open Thread, Jul. 27 - Aug 02, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MrMind 29 July 2015 07:53:13AM 0 points [-]

This is an old problem in probability theory, and there are different solutions.

PT is developed first in finite model, so it's natural that its extension to infinite models can be done in a few different ways.

Comment author: redding 29 July 2015 10:29:16PM 0 points [-]

Could you point me to some solutions?

Comment author: MrMind 30 July 2015 07:20:07AM 1 point [-]

They have already been pointed to you: either extend PT to use some kind of measure (Jaynes' solution), ore use only distributions that have a definite limit when extended to the infinite, or use infinitely small quantities.