On 1/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">gts</b> <<a href="mailto:gts_2000@yahoo.com">gts_2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And even assuming his argument is correct for the random chord paradox,<br>how is it in any way translatable to the other paradoxes?</blockquote><div><br>It's not. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If the Bertrand paradox is fundamentally unsolvable then it seems to me<br>the principle of indifference is toast as a logical principle</blockquote><div><br>The principle of indifference was never valid as a logical principle. If I know a coin is unbiased, I'm justified in claiming the probability of heads on the next toss is
0.5. If all I know is that A or B will happen, and nothing else, I am _not_ justified in claiming the probability of A is 0.5. It might be something completely different.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and if so<br>then it seems two rational agents would be free in certain cases to use<br>different bayesian priors.</blockquote><div><br>Of course. Logic is about deriving conclusions from axioms; it doesn't tell you anything about what axioms you should have.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I would guess that thought is probably anathema to AI researchers; we want<br>
to know all robots of a kind will think and act identically under<br>identical circumstances, yes? Or do we? Real humans seem not to.<br></blockquote></div><br>All robots that are identically programmed will think and act under identical circumstances. If they're not identically programmed they won't, same as humans don't. What of it?
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