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One of the "handy wavy preconditions" is that they share priors. This nearly never happens in the real world. Almost all disagreements can be traced to differ
by kybernetikos 11y ago
One of the "handy wavy preconditions" is that they share priors. This nearly never happens in the real world. Almost all disagreements can be traced to differing priors.
- XFrequentist 11y agoNo - the precondition is that agents share common knowledge of each others' priors (not that they have the same priors).
- kybernetikos 11y agoHere's the paper I read: http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~raumann/pdf/Agreeing%20to%20Disagree.pdf http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/~raumann/pdf/Agreeing%20to%20Disagr... Here's how it starts: "Theorem: if two people have the same priors..."
- XFrequentist 11y agoWhoops, seems you are correct. I'd misunderstood this, my apologies.