From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 19:07:05 MDT
At 05:45 PM 6/20/2003 -0700, Peter McCluskey wrote:
> rhanson@gmu.edu (Robin Hanson) writes:
> >Yes, of course Bayesians can disagree about values, about what
> >they want to have happen. ...
>
>I can understand Bayesians holding different values, but I don't
>understand how that enables disagreement.
I should have written it is "can `disagree' about values." People
sometimes use the word "disagree" in this sense, and I wanted to
acknowledge that. But in the sense of having different expected
expected values of a random variable, no they can't do that
even about values.
Robin Hanson rhanson@gmu.edu http://hanson.gmu.edu
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