prase comments on Minicamp Confidence Intervals - Less Wrong

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Comment author: prase 03 June 2011 11:09:16AM 1 point [-]

Better would be to predict that the comment will have, say, between -10 and 0 karma. Would the audience who dislike this type of comments downvote to hurt the author's karma, or upvote to frustrate his prediction?

(I am not going to do the experiment myself - the first time it is slightly amusing, the second time it would be annoying. But if somebody doesn't mind being annoying...)

Comment author: cwillu 03 June 2011 01:04:12PM 0 points [-]

We're really good at this sort of group coordination: -20 karma for sure :)

Comment author: prase 03 June 2011 02:10:31PM 0 points [-]

So modify: predict that the karma will be negative with 90% confidence.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 June 2011 11:29:43AM 0 points [-]

Better would be to predict that the comment will have, say, between -10 and 0 karma. Would the audience who dislike this type of comments downvote to hurt the author's karma, or upvote to frustrate his prediction?

I would downvote for annoyingness.