Good_Burning_Plastic comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

81 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 July 2009 02:27AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 23 May 2016 09:39:24AM 0 points [-]

If you don't want to break the suspension of disbelief for any reader who is a particle physicist, you might want to increase the number of sigmas. A two-sigma surprise isn't "major", it's something that would happen almost 5% of the time even with a perfect model.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 May 2016 02:53:49PM 0 points [-]

"Three sigmas confidence" is a pretty meaningless expression to start with.

Comment author: gilch 23 May 2016 03:17:13PM *  0 points [-]

Updated again to three nines.