srdiamond comments on A speculation on Near and Far Modes - Less Wrong

14 Post author: MichaelVassar 21 July 2010 06:24AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 10 February 2012 09:41:04PM 1 point [-]

"I think the autistic/schizophrenic spectrum looks like a calibration spectrum for one's near-mode tolerance of type 1 and type 2 errors. Deviation from the mean in either direction causes near mode to be substantially less useful."

Brilliant idea. Why it received so few upvotes begs for analysis.