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dlthomas comments on Help with a (potentially Bayesian) statistics / set theory problem? - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: joshkaufman 10 November 2011 10:30PM

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Comment author: dlthomas 10 November 2011 11:10:21PM 1 point [-]

I don't know that "most preferred" naturally translates into "preferred to every other option." Your "related question" seems a perfectly appropriate generalization of which situations with a single dominant object are a special case (with well ordered sets a special case of that).