[extropy-chat] what is probability?

gts gts_2000 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 17 18:01:57 UTC 2007


On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:55:35 -0500, Rafal Smigrodzki  
<rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:

> To me it's clear that coin flips are not really independent, since by
> observing them you may learn how to predict future flips of the same
> coin.

But the actual *result* of each coin-flip is still independent of the  
results of the other flips, yes?

According to subjectivists like de Finneti, my sentence above is complete  
nonsense. :)

-gts





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