Jayson_Virissimo comments on Advancing Certainty - Less Wrong

34 Post author: komponisto 18 January 2010 09:51AM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 18 January 2010 06:27:42PM 2 points [-]

A probability estimate is not a measure of "confidence" in some psychological sense.

This is one of the possible interpretations of probability. To say that this interpretation is wrong requires an argument, not simply you saying that your interpretation is the correct one.

Comment author: orthonormal 18 January 2010 07:32:13PM 0 points [-]

Here's one facet of the argument.