Strange7 comments on Proposed New Features for Less Wrong - Less Wrong

7 Post author: alyssavance 27 April 2010 01:10AM

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Comment author: Strange7 27 April 2010 11:37:00PM *  3 points [-]

I'd like it, but it should include a prominent caveat:

Your question is not stupid. However, our ability to answer it ("Bayesian Magic") depends on information it would never have occurred to you to provide. As a result, we will start by asking you some extremely stupid-sounding questions about the larger context, and you need to answer as many of them as you can, as promptly and honestly as possible, or the magic won't work.