Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Intuitive supergoal uncertainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 December 2009 08:50:16PM 1 point [-]

Second the question, it doesn't sound Jaynesian to me either.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 December 2009 03:14:06AM 0 points [-]

Second the question, it doesn't sound Jaynesian to me either.

I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who thought that. I was somewhat aghast to hear Jaynes recommend something that is so, well, obviously a bull@# hack.

Comment author: Cyan 05 December 2009 03:48:22AM 0 points [-]

It's curious to me that you'd write this even after I cited chapter and verse. Do you have a copy of PT:LOS?

Comment author: wedrifid 05 December 2009 04:45:40AM *  0 points [-]

It's curious to me that you'd write this even after I cited chapter and verse. Do you have a copy of PT:LOS?

I do have a copy but I will take your word for it. I am shocked and amazed that Jayenes would give such a poor recommendation. It doesn't sound Jaynesian to me either and I rather hope he presents a variant that is sufficiently altered as to not be this suggestion at all. You yourself gave the reason why it doesn't work and I am sure there is a better approach than just hacking the scale when it is near 1 or 0. (I am hoping your paraphrase sounds worse than the original.)

Comment author: timtyler 09 December 2009 04:04:04PM 0 points [-]

Best to give a probabilty density function - but two 2-S-F probabilites typically gives more information than one.