Alicorn comments on Play for a Cause - Less Wrong

7 Post author: brian_jaress 28 January 2010 08:52PM

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Comment author: Alicorn 28 January 2010 09:17:03PM 5 points [-]

As a general policy, it's probably not wise to have significant bets riding on the subjective opinion of someone aware of the bet. I would have been sorely tempted to spin my evaluation of the comment if what I said determined where some money went and I had a preference between the various options.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 January 2010 02:15:38AM 0 points [-]

Good point, I do consider that bet to be an anomalous example of the class 'disagreements that can be resolved to testable predictions that can be bet on rather that rhetorised about'.