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67 Post author: HoldenKarnofsky 18 August 2011 11:34PM

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Comment author: cata 19 August 2011 01:37:26PM *  0 points [-]

I think that for the purposes of establishing a prior distribution of expectation, "playing poker with Warren Buffett" should be in a really different reference class than e.g. "playing poker with my buddies on Thursday." So in your example, I don't think that playing for a billion would actually be so many standard deviations out as to make it less positive than playing for a hundred.