Thrasymachus 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: GuySrinivasan 26 August 2011 09:56:03PM 3 points [-]

I would be unsurprised if later transparent analysis showed the minicamp to be highly successful

What do you mean by unsurprised? Some words don't communicate as well as we feel they do.

Comment author: Thrasymachus 27 August 2011 04:41:17PM 2 points [-]

My sentence was trash, sorry!

What I should have said:

"I have a 0.5ish estimate of the minicamps success, with big error bars. The suspicious behaviour is no more than minute confirmation for it being a failure."

Or something like that.