Re: reasoning under computational limitations

From: Nick Bostrom (bostrom@ndirect.co.uk)
Date: Sun Apr 11 1999 - 09:52:26 MDT


Wei Dai wrote:

> I understand rationality to be in part a constraint on beliefs. When you
> say "rational probabilities in such a case are indeterminate", do you mean
> that a rational person can have arbitrary beliefs in such a case (ie
> rationality places no constraint on such probabilities), or that he should
> assign "indeterminate" to such probabilities?

The former.

Nick Bostrom
http://www.hedweb.com/nickb n.bostrom@lse.ac.uk
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics



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