RobinZ comments on The Optimizer's Curse and How to Beat It - Less Wrong
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I think it's worse than that: Karnofsky's problem is that he has to compare moderate-mean low-variance estimates to large-mean large-variance estimates, but lukeprog's solution is for comparing the estimate to the result in cases where the variance is equal across the board.