From: Robin Hanson (rhanson@gmu.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 01 2003 - 05:58:37 MDT
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
> > Let me echo Rafal; you should find their reasoning as useful as your
> > own as long as they are as reliable as you. They need not be perfect.
>
>Yes, correct. Sorry. I was thinking of a perfect Bayesian trying to use
>the results of another Bayesian (who must therefore be perfect).
>
>I do think you require certainty of honesty, though (or am I mistaken?).
The results are that you cannot knowingly disagree. If you do not think
they are honest, then you do not know their opinion, and so you can
disagree with what they say, since you do not think that is what they
believe.
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