[extropy-chat] what is probability?

[Damien Broderick]

At 12:01 PM 1/13/2007 -0800, Jef wrote:

>"A key question here is whether two machines, each functioning as 
>rational processing units, with the same inputs,  might output 
>different results to the same question."
>
>If you think they can provide different outputs, then your thinking 
>is based on an assumption that (1) "rational" is different for 
>different agents, or (2) "input" is different for different 
>agents.  In either case, there's an assumption of something special 
>(something undefined) going on in the subjective processing of the agent,

Well, to be awful trivial: J and G are rational machines closely 
resembling humans. Input to both the question: Posit that either but 
not both J or G must perish; which is the preferred selection? For 
some values of G and J, I'd be startled if they output the same results.

Damien Broderick