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David_Bolin comments on Does Probability Theory Require Deductive or Merely Boolean Omniscience? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: David_Bolin 03 August 2015 09:04:19AM *  3 points [-]

Probability that there are two elephants given one on the left and one on the right.

In any case, if your language can't express Fermat's last theorem then of course you don't assign a probability of 1 to it, not because you assign it a different probability, but because you don't assign it a probability at all.

Comment author: potato 03 August 2015 09:16:05AM *  1 point [-]

I agree. I am saying that we need not assign it a probability at all. Your solution assumes that there is a way to express "two" in the language. Also, the proposition you made is more like "one elephant and another elephant makes two elephants" not "1 + 1 = 2".

I think we'd be better off trying to find a way to express 1 + 1 = 2 as a boolean function on programs.

Comment author: Lumifer 03 August 2015 02:38:27PM 2 points [-]

I think we'd be better off trying to find a way to express 1 + 1 = 2 as a boolean function on programs.

This goes into the "shit LW people say" collection :-)

Comment author: potato 03 August 2015 02:51:14PM 0 points [-]

Upvoted for cracking me up.