Will_Sawin comments on The Outside View Of Human Complexity - Less Wrong

14 Post author: Andy_McKenzie 08 October 2011 06:12PM

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Comment author: Will_Sawin 08 October 2011 07:46:16PM 18 points [-]

A more charitable explanation is that people accurately estimate the total complexity and then apportion it among the known unknowns, thus creating an overestimate.

Comment author: Andy_McKenzie 10 October 2011 10:53:57PM 4 points [-]

Thanks for this comment. Very parsimonious. Makes having written the post worthwhile.