to be paid out to anyone you think did a fine job of distilling the thing
Needing to judge submissions is the main reason I didn’t offer a bounty myself. Read the distillation, and see if you yourself understand it. If “Coherence of Distributed Decisions With Different Inputs Implies Conditioning” makes sense as a description of the idea, then you’ve probably understood it.
If you don’t understand it after reading an attempted distillation, then it wasn’t distilled well enough.
An update on this: sadly I underestimated how busy I would be after posting this bounty. I spent 2h reading this and Thomas post the other day, but didn’t not manage to get into the headspace of evaluating the bounty (i.e. making my own interpretation of John’s post, and then deciding whether Thomas’ distillation captured that). So I will not be evaluating this. (Still happy to pay if someone else I trust claim Thomas’ distillation was sufficient.) My apologies to John and Thomas about that.
Needing to judge submissions is the main reason I didn’t offer a bounty myself. Read the distillation, and see if you yourself understand it. If “Coherence of Distributed Decisions With Different Inputs Implies Conditioning” makes sense as a description of the idea, then you’ve probably understood it.
If you don’t understand it after reading an attempted distillation, then it wasn’t distilled well enough.
An update on this: sadly I underestimated how busy I would be after posting this bounty. I spent 2h reading this and Thomas post the other day, but didn’t not manage to get into the headspace of evaluating the bounty (i.e. making my own interpretation of John’s post, and then deciding whether Thomas’ distillation captured that). So I will not be evaluating this. (Still happy to pay if someone else I trust claim Thomas’ distillation was sufficient.) My apologies to John and Thomas about that.