hegemonicon comments on Five-minute rationality techniques - Less Wrong

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Comment author: hegemonicon 13 August 2010 07:59:10PM 5 points [-]

Think about your judgments of confidence in terms of frequencies instead of probabilities - our frequency intuitions tend to be much closer to reality. If you estimate that you're 90% sure of something, ask "if I faced ten similar problems, would I really get nine of them right?"