Klao comments on Poker with Lennier - Less Wrong

15 Post author: HonoreDB 15 November 2011 10:21PM

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Comment author: Klao 16 November 2011 12:57:50AM 8 points [-]

Who is the intended audience for this?

If someone has a good grasp of Bayes, it's not that informative. (Though I liked the original idea and the story. :)) But, if one doesn't already understand the math behind this, then it's just a bunch of magic numbers, I am afraid. The second half of it for sure.

Comment author: HonoreDB 17 November 2011 04:22:20AM 2 points [-]

The intended audience for the second half is me ten years ago--someone who has never heard of the concepts, but would find them intriguing enough to unpack the math and follow the links. For the rest, I thought the novel angle on familiar philosophy might be fun.