JGWeissman comments on SIA won't doom you - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 25 March 2010 05:43PM

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Comment author: JGWeissman 25 March 2010 06:09:32PM *  8 points [-]

Presentation issue:

Rather than expressing probabilities in reduced fraction form, it would make the argument easier to follow if groups of probabilities were expressed with common denominators.

So instead of

X:1/15, Y:1/30, A:3/5, B: 3/10

say

X:2/30, Y:1/30, A:18/30, B: 9/30

This makes it easy to compare the probablities using ratios of the numerators, with the denominators just there for normalization.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 March 2010 06:24:14PM 0 points [-]

Adjusted the presentation, thanks.