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Showing posts with label betting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label betting. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

Truth and probabilistic consistency

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Suppose Alice has an inconsistent probabilistic assignment P A . Then, famously, there is a series of bets on single propositions (call thes...
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When being right doesn't pay

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Like me, you might have naively speculated that the more truth you know, the better you’ll do in gambling scenarios. But this is mistaken, a...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Truth and Dutch Books

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Suppose I initially assigned probability 0.5 to p and 0.5 to ~ p . Suppose p is in fact true, and my credence in p comes to be...
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Monday, February 2, 2015

Betting on paradoxical sets

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Suppose that a point z will be uniformly randomly chosen on the surface of a sphere S and you are asked to place bets as to which set ...
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Alexander R Pruss
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