Larks comments on The Prediction Hierarchy - Less Wrong

21 Post author: RobinZ 19 January 2010 03:36AM

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Comment author: Larks 19 January 2010 08:41:31AM 1 point [-]

Surely you couldn't expect to make forty million predictions of which you were that confident and only be wrong once.

If it were 40 million predictions about lotteries of that size I could.

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 19 January 2010 09:26:22AM *  2 points [-]

Don't be so overconfident, apparently in 1997 New York ran a promotion that doubled the payouts of a single game on exactly 4 days in exactly 1 month, and payed out $1.40 to $1 on average.

Comment author: Larks 20 January 2010 09:15:08AM 0 points [-]

That's a different game though, where the odds of winning aren't one in 40 million.