nerzhin comments on Confidence levels inside and outside an argument - Less Wrong

129 Post author: Yvain 16 December 2010 03:06AM

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Comment author: nerzhin 16 December 2010 04:42:50PM 7 points [-]

don't update yet!

I read it to mean "update again" based on the probability that E is flawed. This well tend to adjust back toward your prior.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 16 December 2010 06:37:58PM 1 point [-]

While you do that, the probability for the estimate being dynamically unstable should go up and then down again. Otherwise, you might make some strange decisions in-between, where the tradeoff between waiting for new information and deciding right now will be as for the honest estimate and not an intermediate step in a multi-step updating procedure with knowably incorrect intermediate results.