Re: self-sampling assumption is incorrect

2002-07-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Wei Dai, About books. Concerning the provability logics I always mentionned the Boolos 1993 (or even his lovely lighter Boolos 1979), but I would like to mention also the book Self-reference and modal logic by Smorynski. The only problem is its very little caracters; I should go to the

Re: self-sampling assumption is incorrect

2002-06-27 Thread Wei Dai
On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 12:16:59AM -0700, Hal Finney wrote: Let me start with this. If U(E1) U(E2), then would a rational person have to pick E1 over E2? What if he were someone who were contrary? Or someone who preferred lesser utility? I think we can rule these cases out by properly

Re: self-sampling assumption is incorrect

2002-06-15 Thread Wei Dai
After writing the following response, I realized that my argument against the self sampling assumption doesn't really depend on E1 and E2 being experiences. They can be any kind of events. Suppose they're prizes that the copies can win for the original. E1 is a TV and E2 is a stereo. You'd