Norton, John D. (2019) How NOT to Build an Infinite Lottery Machine. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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The sustained failure of efforts to design an infinite lottery machine using ordinary probabilistic randomizers is traced back to a problem familiar to set theorists: we have no constructive prescriptions for probabilistically non- measurable sets. Yet construction of such sets is required if we are to be able to read the result of an infinite lottery machine that is built from ordinary probabilistic randomizers. All such designs face a dilemma: they can provide an accessible (readable) result with probability zero; or an inaccessible result with probability greater than zero.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Norton, John D. jdnorton@pitt.edu 0000-0003-0936-5308
Additional Information:	Published in in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 82, 2020, pp. 1-8
Keywords:	axiom of choice, non-constructible, infinite lottery, probability,
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Mathematics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User:	John Norton
Date Deposited:	19 Jul 2019 01:46
Last Modified:	02 Feb 2021 19:50
Item ID:	16236
Official URL:	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.07.001
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Mathematics Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date:	14 July 2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16236

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