RobinZ comments on The I-Less Eye - Less Wrong

30 Post author: rwallace 28 March 2010 06:13PM

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Comment author: Mass_Driver 30 March 2010 04:28:40PM 1 point [-]

My probability of ending up the original couldn't have been 0.5^99, that's effectively impossible, less than the probability of hallucinating this whole conversation.

Does anyone have a sense of what the lower limit is on meaningful probability estimates for individual anticipation? Right, like there should be some probability p(E) where, upon experiencing E, even a relatively sane and well-balanced person ought to predict that the actual state of the world is ~E, because p(I'm Crazy or I've Misunderstood) >> p(E).

More to the point, p(E) should be roughly constant across apparently sane people; I would guess that the probability of hallucination doesn't vary by much more than a factor of 10 among people who have no reason to expect that they are hallucinating. 10^1 might be small relative to whatever the Minimum Probability turns out to be.

Comment author: RobinZ 30 March 2010 07:17:29PM 0 points [-]

This seems related to the post I submitted in January, The Prediction Hierarchy. I think I'd have to know what you're using it for to know what to do with any given lower bound.