christopherj comments on Ask and Guess - Less Wrong

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Comment author: christopherj 07 December 2013 04:19:12AM 0 points [-]

Hinting is just ambiguous and inefficient asking. If you don't believe that, try ignoring the hints and see if they get mad.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 December 2013 05:26:57AM 2 points [-]

Yes, a hint is an ambiguous request, agreed.
As to whether it's efficient or not, that depends a lot on what outputs we're measuring.
Ambiguity is often valuable.