Roko comments on 3 Levels of Rationality Verification - Less Wrong

43 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 05:19PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (182)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment deleted 15 March 2009 05:58:15PM *  [-]
Comment author: MichaelBishop 15 March 2009 06:29:36PM 2 points [-]

You're thinking of Asch's experiments. Apparently, they are widely misrepresented: http://webpage.pace.edu/yrafferty/Yvonne/AschConformityStudy.pdf See also: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~jkg/Conformity.pdf (I don't remember where I found these... possibly through OB)

Comment deleted 15 March 2009 06:42:28PM *  [-]
Comment author: MichaelHoward 15 March 2009 06:52:22PM 3 points [-]

Since my comment has been downvoted to 0, I assume that the LW community likes...

Hasty generalization/Belief in the law of small numbers

Comment author: MichaelHoward 15 March 2009 06:17:39PM *  1 point [-]

...and here's the video (the one in the OB link is dead).

Comment author: CarlShulman 15 March 2009 06:13:25PM 1 point [-]