Re: Use of Three-State Electronic Level to Express Belief

2004-10-04 Thread Bruno Marchal
At 11:59 29/09/04 -0700, George Levy wrote: Bruno Marchal wrote: Hi George, [out-of-line message] perhaps you could try to motivate your qBp == If q then p. I don't see the relation with if q is 1 then p is known, and and if q is 0 then p is unknown. How do you manage the known notion.Imagine

Re: Observation selection effects

2004-10-04 Thread Jesse Mazer
Norman Samish: The Flip-Flop game described by Stathis Papaioannou strikes me as a version of the old Two-Envelope Paradox. Assume an eccentric millionaire offers you your choice of either of two sealed envelopes, A or B, both containing money. One envelope contains twice as much as the other.