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potato comments on Naming the Highest Virtue of Epistemic Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

-3 Post author: potato 24 October 2011 11:00PM

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Comment author: potato 24 October 2011 11:27:28PM *  0 points [-]

Yes, it is of course. The more you claim the more opportunity for failure. Obviously the person with the least negative score is the person with the highest bayesian competence. But perhaps that should be weighted by the number of beliefs you assing anything to. However, assuming all English speakers have access to about the same number of sentences, and that they assign probabilities to all of them, I hold by the original formulation.