Nisan comments on Vanilla and chocolate and preference judgements - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Swimmer963 18 April 2011 10:14PM

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Comment author: Nisan 21 April 2011 02:19:18AM 4 points [-]

I bet one could write a rationalist romantic comedy. "Do they like me or don't they like me?" translates pretty easily into "I'm uncertain about whether they like me, and this is causing me distress."

And even perfect Bayesians can get confused by cases of mistaken identity once in a while.