AdeleneDawner comments on Rationalist Horoscopes: Low-hanging utility generator? - Less Wrong

26 Post author: AdeleneDawner 18 May 2011 09:52PM

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 19 May 2011 05:58:15PM 0 points [-]

It's not obvious to me how to do this and still gather information from the user without interfering with the scores for their chosen category. Having them guess after the fact how well the "slacker" horoscope would have worked for them seems clearly sub-optimal, especially since there's an obvious pressure for them to say that it wouldn't've.

Comment author: mutterc 19 May 2011 08:46:20PM 3 points [-]

I bet it would be useful to sort people by "what do you most want to improve about yourself?" It seems every LWer has at least one thing (and some, many).

People who choose "nothing" would end up getting horoscopes centering around Dunning-Kruger, confirmation bias, etc.