TheOtherDave comments on Say More, Justify Less - Less Wrong

19 Post author: paulfchristiano 14 April 2011 10:41PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 18 December 2011 01:53:39PM 0 points [-]

Whenever anyone talks about a run of bad luck lasting that long, I assume that they've shifted their threshold such that ordinarily luck is no longer good enough.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 18 December 2011 03:00:26PM 0 points [-]

It's also possible that they aren't playing as well.

It seems as though someone should have done the math on the likelihood of very long stretches of bad luck in poker, but a casual search didn't turn anything up.