darius comments on Value of Information: Four Examples - Less Wrong

76 Post author: Vaniver 22 November 2011 11:02PM

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Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 22 November 2011 01:09:34PM * 4 points [-]

Great post on a very important topic.

One suggestion: pictures would help a lot here. Norvig's AIMA has some very nice illustrations in ch 16 (I think)

P(p)=2x; in the second, P(p)=2-2x

Not sure how you worked this out. Not clear what X is

Comment author: darius 23 November 2011 08:09:00AM 2 points [-]

Figure 16.8. (I happened to have the book right next to me.)