Okay. What about "absolute" systems that cast nonabsolute prescriptive recipes as shadows, like "try counting digits and adding to estimate the product to within a couple of orders of magnitude"?
I’ve just now read the first bit of that, which is the Dutch Book Argument, so we’re back to where we started… maybe twitter needs a circular thread mechanism :)
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I didn't think DBA appeared there until later? Anyway, from the end: "We have multiple spotlights all shining on the same core mathematical structure, saying dozens of different variants on, 'If you aren't running around in circles or stepping on your own feet or...
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...wantonly giving up things you say you want, we can see your behavior as corresponding to this shape. Conversely, if we can't see your behavior as corresponding to this shape, you must be visibly shooting yourself in the foot.'"
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