Arandur comments on Where Recursive Justification Hits Bottom - Less Wrong

41 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 July 2008 10:16AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (73)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: shminux 08 August 2011 08:47:07PM *  2 points [-]

Not necessarily, a memoryless process (e.g. same odds of the second coming happening today as yesterday) follows the Exponential distribution. It has a finite expected value, even though it has no memory. Radioactive decay is a standard example.

Comment author: Arandur 08 August 2011 09:16:04PM 0 points [-]

Oh, I see. :3 Thanks.