Vladimir_M comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Will_Newsome 03 October 2010 02:43AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_M 03 October 2010 08:28:13PM -2 points [-]

I addressed this point in another comment in this thread:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2sl/the_irrationality_game/2qgm

Comment author: mattnewport 03 October 2010 08:44:50PM *  3 points [-]

I agree with most of what you're saying (in that comment and this one) but I still think that the ability to give well calibrated probability estimates for a particular prediction is instrumentally useful and that it is fairly likely that this is an ability that can be improved with practice. I don't take this to imply anything about humans performing actual Bayesian calculations either implicitly or explicitly.