Re: More Hard Problems Using Bayes' Theorem, Please

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Jul 07 2003 - 21:40:29 MDT

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    Dan Fabulich wrote:
    >
    > (I note, for example, that you happened to misread the problem Eliezer
    > posed; you solved a perfectly fine problem instead, but not exactly the
    > problem as posed. That problem has some handy features that which allow
    > you to simplify and solve the problem just a bit faster. [Though I sure
    > as hell wouldn't notice them unless I was working on paper.])

    Mm? Looks to me like Mitch solved the right problem (albeit not in the
    Bayesian 30-Second Way). Did I mispose it?

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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