Predicting the Future

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat May 24 2003 - 12:11:46 MDT

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    I don't know how to give this message a proper subject line.
    It seems to involve Copernicus, Gott, Kurzweil, Minsky, Caves
    and Bayes to name a few.

    The original discussion started here:
      http://nanodot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/19/2235249
    The more interesting article cited, esp. because of a number
    of references to Bayesian theory, was:
      C. M. Caves,
      "Predicting Future Duration from Present Age: A Critical Assessment"
      http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0001414

    I don't recall if this has been discussed before, and the math
    extends beyond the level I can easily deal with, but the topic discussed
    seemed very interesting so I offer the URLs to the list.

    Robert



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