From: Joshua Fox (joshua@joshuafox.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 00:11:39 MDT
Tim,
Perhaps this paper by Robin Hansen is relevant
http://hanson.gmu.edu/prior.pdf
(also discussed here
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2006/12/why_common_prio.html )
Joshua
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Tim Freeman <tim@fungible.com> wrote:
> From: "Eliezer Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
> >I presume you're localizing the difference to the priors, because if
> >the two AIs trust each other's evidence-gathering processes, Aumann
> >agreement prevents them from otherwise having a known disagreement
> >about posteriors.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "localizing" here.
>
> All the references I could find for the Aumann agreement theorem apply
> when the two agents have the same priors, and by hypothesis these two
> agents do not. If you think Aumann agreement applies here, please
> point to or give a statement of the theorem that supports your
> assertion. Here's one that does not:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_knowledge_(logic)#Applications
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