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12 Post author: komponisto 14 December 2009 06:56AM

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Comment author: ciphergoth 14 December 2009 11:11:57PM 3 points [-]

You're saying that sometimes compensating for overconfidence means moving a probability further away from 50%? That it somes means moving a probability estimate closer to some sort of "base rate"? Interesting and worth talking about more, I think. For one thing it gets you right into the "reference class tennis" you've talked about elsewhere - which in itself deserves further discussion.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 December 2009 12:41:50AM 1 point [-]

For one thing it gets you right into the "reference class tennis" you've talked about elsewhere

Yup.