Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on 3 Levels of Rationality Verification - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 08:27:11PM 1 point [-]

What true stories can we use besides police cases? (Also, note that in this case you're only testing for being as smart as the police or making the same judgments as the jury - even using cases with a confession may get you false confessions.)

Comment author: CarlShulman 15 March 2009 09:10:58PM 5 points [-]

You can take cases with enough evidence to overdetermine the result, and then subtract pieces.

Comment author: rwallace 15 March 2009 08:39:27PM *  2 points [-]

Point. Still, we've been recording lots of different kinds of events for a long time. Off the top of my head, other kinds of historical data that could be useful here:

Medical cases, minor scientific controversies, engineering projects, battles, the stock market, markets in general, expeditions.