[PRL] How to know you know

Greg Pettyjohn gregp at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Nov 28 17:24:31 EST 2007


"In the 9 out of 10 contexts where I use this statement, It is false."

(and I'm not quite sure what it all means anymore!)

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Dave Herman wrote:

> 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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