shokwave comments on Help Fund Lukeprog at SIAI - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 August 2011 07:16AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 August 2011 12:28:37AM 6 points [-]

Answering that question now is probably not possible to the degree of certainty required.

That's exactly the complaint though -- many people have described it as a success, before the data is available.

Comment author: shokwave 26 August 2011 02:51:36PM 1 point [-]

Sure, but Konkvistador's post is about how the survey might be contaminated by awesome-people-halo-effect, not that we shouldn't be calling it a success. That's a separate concern addressed elsewhere. My post was addressing how we would tell the difference between "working" and "near awesome people".