From: Randall Randall (randall@randallsquared.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 14:51:41 MDT
On May 9, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Chris Capel wrote:
> On 5/8/06, Michael Vassar <michaelvassar@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> For the information of Charles and others, with respect to the
>> updating of
>> beliefs, though not actions, it seems to me that I have met a
>> grand total of
>> four people rational enough that they don't have a strong expectation
>> regarding the direction of disagreement after communicating that
>> disagreement.
>
> This is quite interesting, but I don't understand what you mean by
> "direction of disagreement". Could you rephrase?
That means that after the reevaluation of each person's position,
neither will know whether they or the other is closer to their
original position.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "Part of it may be that in the olden days, when the worst thing the writers had ever faced was the Great Depression and World War Two, it was easier to be upbeat about the future's potential, whereas now, when we are saddled with enough conventional fuels to last us centuries, monstrously bloated incomes and the dilemma of which of 500 channels to watch, spotting any ray of light seems impossible. " -- James Nicoll
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