[PRL] How to know you know

[Dave Herman]

Hm. This suggests a probabilistic liar's paradox:

     90% of this statement is false.

Dave

Mitchell Wand wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 2:05 PM, William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu 
> <mailto:will at ccs.neu.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     Greg Pettyjohn wrote:
>      > OK then, I suppose that eventually you will discover that 90% of
>      > _what_you've_written_yourself_ is also bullshit.
> 
>     Sure.  The problem is to figure out which 90%.
> 
>     Will
> 
> 
> Exactly right.  And it is absolutely true that 90% of what you've 
> written yourself is bullshit, at least at sufficiently long time scales.
> 
> --Mitch
> 
> 
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