Rationality Quotes September 2011

dvasya

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Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules:

Please post all quotes separately, so that they can be voted up/down separately. (If they are strongly related, reply to your own comments. If strongly ordered, then go ahead and post them together.)
Do not quote yourself.
Do not quote comments/posts on LW/OB.
No more than 5 quotes per person per monthly thread, please.

I think we would do quite poorly with any one such question and exponentially better if permitted a handful

cringe. Please don't use "exponentially" to mean a lot when you have only two data points.

cringe. Please don't use "exponentially" to mean a lot when you have only two data points.

I heard a Calculus teacher do this with even less justification a few days ago.

EDIT: was this downvoted for irrelevancy, or some other reason?

-2lessdazed15y

I mean we'd do more than twice as well with one question than with two, and more than twice as well with three than with two. Usually, diminishing returns leads us to learn less from each additional question, but not here. How do I express that? [...] I have zero data points, I'm comparing hypothetical situations in which I ask aliens one or more questions about their technology. (It seems Dawkins' scenario got inverted somewhere along the way, but I don't think that makes any difference.)

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