Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-07-02 Thread Ed Murphy
G. wrote: On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term "logician", that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Steven Gardner
You should have injected them with an emergency hit of information theory. Instant clarity. -- Steve Gardner via mobile On 27 Jun 2013 02:08, "Kerim Aydin" wrote: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: > > On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > > > I was blocking on the term "logic

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, omd wrote: > Although there are no appeals,  I do strenuously object to this judgement.   > The default assumption is the default because it is > usually accurate.  Unless you believe that my brother and I are not in > control of the theagoranundead Gmail account, something

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: > On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > > > I was blocking on the term "logician", that's a better choice. (Just had a > > flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, > > maybe I was channeling). > > Yeah man, you can get f

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 12:07 AM, Kerim Aydin wrote: I was blocking on the term "logician", that's a better choice. (Just had a flashback to the day in grad school when I became a committed Bayesian, maybe I was channeling). Yeah man, you can get flashbacks from that sort of thing. Or so I've heard, I

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread Fool
On 26/06/2013 8:20 AM, omd wrote: Although there are no appeals, I do strenuously object to this judgement. The default assumption is the default because it is usually accurate. Unless you believe that my brother and I are not in control of the theagoranundead Gmail account, something which I c

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-26 Thread omd
On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Fool wrote: > > Goethe's arguments: > >> Was thinking about this, it's interesting that this win attempt goes >> along with our earlier discussion on legal versus mathematical. In a >> mathematical sense, one could say that it was "equally likely or >> unlikely" that o

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Fool wrote: > Furthermore I fail to see how even the mathematician's (thought it was > supposed to be logician's) version of the argument is sound. The reference to > the "principle of indifference" instead makes it sound like some sort of > Bayesian reasoning. But let me put

Re: DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Steven Gardner
Quite right Dan. While I applaud the spirit of omd's attempt to win by paradox, we are very far from being in a position to say that we cannot determine whether The UNDEAD is player. We haven't even tried to collect any of the possibly relevant evidence yet! On 26 June 2013 11:22, Fool wrote: >

DIS: Agora XX: CFJ on the UNDEAD

2013-06-25 Thread Fool
On 25/06/2013 4:34 PM, omd wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 8:27 PM, The UNDEAD wrote: I do not register. I propose repealing rule 327. Well... even though there are supposed to be a few days left, I don't want to delay this further lest someone else beat me to it :) I invoke judgement on the