[extropy-chat] Bayes, crackpots and psi

[Robin Hanson]

At 06:29 AM 12/21/2004, Samantha Atkins responded to Hal Finney:
>...  The argument that it is a paradox if we have disagreement among 
>rational thinkers assumes both perfect rationality  and a perfect 
>understanding of sufficient relevant information.   Neither of these is 
>likely to be an absolute.   There is thus neither an irresistible force 
>nor an immovable object present to fret over.

You may be familiar with an argument that makes these two assumptions, but 
the argument that Hal and I have in mind does not.  See: 
http://hanson.gmu.edu/deceive.pdf




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