Antisuji comments on When is further research needed? - Less Wrong

0 Post author: RichardKennaway 17 June 2011 03:01PM

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Comment author: Antisuji 17 June 2011 03:33:54PM 2 points [-]

In the example you choose it is blatantly intuitively obvious that making the observation has high expected utility, so its use as an intuition pump is minimal. Perhaps it would be better to find an example where it's not as immediately obvious?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 17 June 2011 04:22:58PM *  0 points [-]

Maybe, but I'll let it stand. I've added a related example at the end though, to make a different point.