nshepperd comments on Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 11 December 2010 06:08:15AM 0 points [-]

Which is one reason rational people never assign 0 probability to anything.

I don't know, I feel pretty confident assigning P(A&!A)=0 :P

Comment author: nshepperd 11 December 2010 06:15:26AM 0 points [-]

"Pretty confident" is about as close to "actually 0" as the moon is (which I don't care to quantify :P).

Comment author: wedrifid 11 December 2010 06:25:11AM 1 point [-]

"Pretty confident" is about as close to "actually 0" as the moon is (which I don't care to quantify :P).

"Pretty confident" was also a rhetorical understatement. :P