TimS comments on The Irrationality Game - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 13 April 2012 05:27:55PM *  1 point [-]

Aren't you supposed to separate distinct predictions? Edit: don't see it in the rules, so remainder of post changed to reflect.

I upvote the second prediction - the existence of self-aware humans seems evidence of overconfidence, at the very least.

Comment author: Wrongnesslessness 13 April 2012 06:24:03PM 1 point [-]

But humans are crazy! Aren't they?

Comment author: TimS 13 April 2012 06:30:19PM 0 points [-]

If we define crazy as "sufficiently mentally unusual as to be noticeably dysfunctional in society" then I estimate at least 50% of humanity is not crazy.

If we define crazy as "sufficiently mentally unusual that they cannot achieve ordinary goals more than 70% of the time," then I estimate that at least 75% of humanity is not crazy.