Nornagest comments on Yes, a blog. - Less Wrong

88 Post author: Academian 19 November 2010 01:53AM

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Comment author: Nornagest 19 November 2010 06:07:49AM *  3 points [-]

Interesting question.

I've forgotten which page convinced me to start reading this site in earnest. It might have been "Generalization from Fictional Evidence", which is excellent, but that served a rather specific purpose for me and I'm not sure it'd do the same for others.

Looking over some of the sequences now, I think "Positive Bias: Look Into The Dark" might have the right balance of accessible and mind-blowing to hook a layman of no more than average mathematical sophistication. The 2-4-6 task is one of the more elegant ways of demonstrating both bias and possible countermeasures that I've encountered here.