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RichardKennaway comments on Bayesian exercise - Less Wrong Discussion

5 Post author: RolfAndreassen 21 September 2011 09:34PM

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 22 September 2011 08:09:11AM 1 point [-]

Other people have already said most of what there is to be said, but there is also this:

Presumably your chances of success this time are not affected by the next one being a failure, so P(1S|FNT) is just P(S) = 0.97.

Not causally affected, but possibly correlated. Or anticorrelated. At any rate, the fact that the future does not causally affect the present does not establish the probabilistic independence of 1S and FNT.