steven comments on Qualitatively Confused - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2008 05:01PM

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Comment author: steven 14 March 2008 06:57:54PM 0 points [-]

If a coin has certain gross physical features such that a rational agent who knows those features (but NOT any details about how the coin is thrown) is forced to assign a probability p to the coin landing on "heads", then it seems reasonable to me to speak of discovering an "objective chance" or "propensity" or whatever. These would be "emergent" in the non-buzzword sense. For example, if a coin has two headses, then I don't see how it's problematic to say the objective chance of heads is 1.