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John Quiggin's avatar

As regards priority, what does Good add to Blackwell, who (I think) was first by a couple of decades

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Richard Pettigrew's avatar

Not much! He gives the version of the Value of Information Theorem that philosophers tend to know about. Blackwell doesn't state this particularly explicitly, as far as I can see, though it's clear once you understand Blackwell that the theorem is an easy consequence of his work.

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