Desrtopa comments on Amanda Knox: post mortem - Less Wrong

23 Post author: gwern 20 October 2011 04:10PM

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Comment author: brazil84 21 October 2011 03:17:05PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand your point. My belief that I have superior judgment in this area is based on actual knowledge about myself and my experiences. "Faith" implies that there is no such basis.

I don't recall claiming or implying that I was basing my assessment on "faith," but I could be wrong. Which is why I am giving loqi a chance to back up his statement.

Comment author: Desrtopa 21 October 2011 03:23:01PM 2 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand your point. My belief that I have superior judgment in this area is based on actual knowledge about myself and my experiences.

But not knowledge of the other commenters and their experiences, whom you seem to have lumped into the reference class of "anonymous internet commenters," which you assign a low assessment of competence.

If you want to find a lot of people with significant expertise in rendering judgment under uncertainty, I think this is a pretty good place to look.