Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-07-02 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term logician, that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread omd
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Fool wrote: Goethe's arguments: Was thinking about this, it's interesting that this win attempt goes along with our earlier discussion on legal versus mathematical. In a mathematical sense, one could say that it was equally likely or unlikely that omd sent the

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term logician, that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks from that sort of thing. Or so I've heard, I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term logician, that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, omd wrote: Although there are no appeals,  I do strenuously object to this judgement.   The default assumption is the default because it is usually accurate.  Unless you believe that my brother and I are not in control of the theagoranundead Gmail account, something

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Steven Gardner
You should have injected them with an emergency hit of information theory. Instant clarity. -- Steve Gardner via mobile On 27 Jun 2013 02:08, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 25/06/2013 4:34 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:27 PM, The UNDEADtheagoranund...@gmail.com wrote: I do not register. I propose repealing rule 327. Well... even though there are supposed to be a few days left, I don't want to delay this further lest someone else beat me to it :)

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: Furthermore I fail to see how even the mathematician's (thought it was supposed to be logician's) version of the argument is sound. The reference to the principle of indifference instead makes it sound like some sort of Bayesian reasoning. But let me put my