cousin_it comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 4 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 25 October 2010 07:49:25AM *  5 points [-]

Seconding Nesov's point. If you ask people to guess the number you have in mind, and someone says "three" (while others say "one" or "five" or "a hundred"), and you did in fact have in mind "three", that doesn't prove the answer is "gettable". Not saying that it isn't in fact gettable, only that you need a stricter test. For example, sometimes ask someone else to post a comment with the correct answer (or do it yourself using an alias) and see how it fares compared to other hypotheses.