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-3 Post author: tygorton 20 May 2012 04:40AM

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Comment author: roll 20 May 2012 08:06:43AM *  -1 points [-]

Well, one has to distinguish between purely rational being that has full set of possible propositions with correct probabilities assigned to them, and a bounded agent which has a partial set of possible propositions, generated gradually by exploring starting from some of the most probable propositions; the latter can't even do Bayesian statistics properly due to the complex non-linear feedback via proposition generation process, and is not omniscient enough to foresee as well as your argument requires.