Vladimir_Nesov comments on In defense of the outside view - Less Wrong
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I failed to convey an idea of my answer in "Consider representative data sets". Prototypes that come to mind in planning are not representative (they are about efficient if-all-goes-well plans and not their real-world outcomes), and so should either be complemented by more concepts to make up representative data sets (which doesn't work in practice), or forcefully excluded from consideration. The deeper the inside view the better, unless you are arriving at an answer intuitively under the conditions of predictably tilted availability.