Matthew2 comments on Perpetual Motion Beliefs - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2008 08:22PM

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Comment author: Matthew2 28 February 2008 07:02:55AM 0 points [-]

the ep. dealmaker said: "I would be interested in seeing you talk about belief and probability in cases where the deck is not quite so stacked as it is in your thermodynamic examples."

It seems reasonable for a financial analyst to understand that the lottery and coin flipping aren't "stacked".

Hmm, what else could he mean...

Perhaps he means something like the weather.