steven0461 comments on The Importance of Self-Doubt - Less Wrong

23 Post author: multifoliaterose 19 August 2010 10:47PM

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Comment author: steven0461 21 August 2010 05:47:06AM 4 points [-]

Maybe I should have qualified my statement by saying "this estimate may be a gross overestimate or a gross underestimate."

It sounds, then, like you're averaging probabilities geometrically rather than arithmetically. This is bad!

Comment author: multifoliaterose 21 August 2010 05:51:37AM *  1 point [-]

I understand your position and believe that it's fundamentally unsound. I will have more to say about this later.

For now I'll just say that the arithmetical average of the probabilities that I imagine I might ascribe to Eliezer's current strategy resulting in an FAI to be 10^(-9).