Academian comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Academian 04 October 2010 10:04:31PM *  11 points [-]

This comment currently (at the time of reading) has at least 10 net upvotes.

Confidence: 99%.

Comment author: Perplexed 05 October 2010 04:10:20AM 6 points [-]

You realize, of course, that your confidence level is too high. Eventually, the score should cycle between +9 and +10. Which means that the correct confidence level should be 50%.

Nonetheless, it is very cute. So, I'll upvote it for overconfidence, to say nothing of currently being wrong.

Comment author: JGWeissman 05 October 2010 05:57:59AM 4 points [-]

Once it gets to 10 points, it should be voted up for underconfidence.

Comment author: magfrump 05 October 2010 08:10:45AM 3 points [-]

Except that there's a chance that it's been downvoted by someone else that's sufficient for 99% to warrant agreement rather than a statement of underconfidence (if and only if people decide that this is true!) which would be easily broken if it got up to 11 but would be far more easily broken if the confidence was set at say, 75%.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 October 2010 05:19:16AM 0 points [-]

You realize, of course, that your confidence level is too high. Eventually, the score should cycle between +9 and +10. Which means that the correct confidence level should be 50%.

It would actually be +8 to +11. (I don't think that changes the 50%.)

Comment author: magfrump 08 October 2010 11:04:51PM 3 points [-]

Cycle's broken! Now upvoted for underconfidence.