Gray_Area comments on Joint Configurations - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 April 2008 05:00AM

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Comment author: Gray_Area 11 April 2008 08:06:54AM 0 points [-]

"The probability of two events equals the probability of the first event plus the probability of the second event."

Mutually exclusive events.

It is interesting that you insist that beliefs ought to be represented by classical probability. Given that we can construct multiple kinds of probability theory, on what grounds should we prefer one over the other to represent what 'belief' ought to be?