[extropy-chat] what is probability?

gts gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 14 18:51:32 UTC 2007


On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:21:02 -0500, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net>  
wrote:

> 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,

In the scenario I just described, I made none of the assumptions you list  
above and yet the two rational agents arrived at different judgemental  
probabilities.

-gts






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