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MichaelVassar comments on Why We Can't Take Expected Value Estimates Literally (Even When They're Unbiased) - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 19 August 2011 02:22:34PM 6 points [-]

This was, in fact, the first example I ever brought Holden. IMHO he never really engaged with it, but he did find it interesting and maintained correspondence which brought him to the FAI point. (all this long before I was formally involved with SIAI)