orthonormal comments on How to make your intuitions cost-sensitive - Less Wrong

21 Post author: apophenia 08 February 2011 09:59AM

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Comment author: orthonormal 08 February 2011 05:40:51PM 1 point [-]

Were you inspired by the Debtris visualization?

Comment author: Larks 08 February 2011 06:23:53PM 3 points [-]

Unfortunately, those boxes aren't actually to scale!

Compare, for example, "Big Tobacco Settlement" and "Amount needed to help developing nations combat climate change

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Comment author: orthonormal 09 February 2011 12:53:28AM 1 point [-]

Huh- that's disappointing.

In their defense, it does say "note: some slight visual cheating to make things fit", it does list the actual numbers, and fudging by a factor of about 1.5 still leaves order-of-magnitude differences perfectly clear. But it should have been done better.