dlthomas comments on 2011 Less Wrong Census / Survey - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Yvain 01 November 2011 06:28PM

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Comment author: dreeves 06 November 2011 07:07:46PM 5 points [-]

I took the survey and I agree with some other comments about the difficulty of assigning probabilities to distant events. I decided to just round to either 0 or 1% for a few things. I hope "0" won't be interpreted as literally zero.

Something bugs me about the IQ question. It's easy to call sour grapes on those complaining about that metric but it seems like such a poor proxy for what matters, namely, making awesome stuff happen. Not denying a correlation, just that I think we can do much better. Even income in dollars might be a better proxy despite the obvious problems with that.

Comment author: dlthomas 08 November 2011 01:02:16AM 4 points [-]

I hope "0" won't be interpreted as literally zero.

Rest easy - it was stated that it meant epsilon.