RE: Hempel's Paradox

From: Ben Goertzel (ben@goertzel.org)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 15:26:31 MDT


Eliezer wrote:
> Actually, let me pose an even simpler question. Will PTL be willing to
> bet on different odds for "All ravens are black" and "All non-black
> objects are not ravens"?

Well, that is a much easier problem....

PTL might well do so in some cases due to heuristic approximations causing
errors, but if so the difference in odds would generally be a small one, and
could be corrected via higher-order inferencing.

-- Ben



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