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Khoth comments on Probabilistic Löb theorem - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 April 2013 06:45PM

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Comment author: Khoth 30 April 2013 07:03:52AM 0 points [-]

I wasn't summing a(n). It's the sequence a(n) that converges, not its sum, and the partial products of the b(n) are equal to the a(n), not the partial sums of the a(n).

Certainly an infinite product of 0<n<1 can't be one. Nobody's disputing that.

Comment author: Decius 30 April 2013 06:33:09PM 0 points [-]

Oh, then it sounds like we are in perfect agreement that my initial claim was wrong; however, we can now generate an infinite series of probabilities less than one whose product remains higher than 1-epsilon for any epsilon. If 1-epsilon is used as the determinator of what the system proves true, Löb's theorem holds.