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Will_Newsome comments on P(X = exact value) = 0: Is it really counterintuitive? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: lucidfox 29 July 2011 12:45PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 31 July 2011 03:09:53AM 0 points [-]

"Should"? I would much rather be logically inconsistent, or bet that the axioms of probability are meaningless or irrelevant---which in relevant decision theoretic problems they tend to be---than give odds of infinity to one.