Miller, Ryan (2022) Nonrational Belief Paradoxes as Byzantine Failures. Logos & Episteme, 13 (4). pp. 343-358.

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David Christensen and others argue that Dutch Strategies are more like peer disagreements than Dutch Books, and should not count against agents’ conformity to ideal rationality. I review these arguments, then show that Dutch Books, Dutch Strategies, and peer disagreements are only possible in the case of what computer scientists call Byzantine Failures—uncorrected Byzantine Faults which update arbitrary values. Yet such Byzantine Failures make agents equally vulnerable to all three kinds of epistemic inconsistencies, so there is no principled basis for claiming that only avoidance of true Dutch Books characterizes ideally rational agents. Agents without Byzantine Failures can be ideally rational in a very strong sense, but are not normative for humans. Bounded rationality in the presence of Byzantine Faults remains an unsolved problem.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Miller, Ryan 66millerr@cua.edu 0000-0003-0268-2570
Keywords:	Byzantine Generals, Dutch Strategies, Ideal Rationality, Dutch books, peer disagreements
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Computer Science Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Depositing User:	Ryan Miller
Date Deposited:	31 Aug 2023 15:55
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 15:55
Item ID:	22474
Journal or Publication Title:	Logos & Episteme
Official URL:	https://www.pdcnet.org/logos-episteme/content/logo...
DOI or Unique Handle:	https://doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme202213430
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Computer Science Specific Sciences > Psychology > Judgment and Decision Making Specific Sciences > Probability/Statistics
Date:	December 2022
Page Range:	pp. 343-358
Volume:	13
Number:	4
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22474

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