gmweinberg comments on The Most Important Thing You Learned - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 February 2009 08:15PM

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Comment author: gmweinberg 28 February 2009 08:29:51PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure I've "learned" anything. You've largely convinced me that we don't really "know" anything but rather have varying degrees of belief, but I believed that to some degree before reading this site and am not 100% convinced of it now.

The most important thing I can think of that I would have said is almost certainly wrong before and that I'd say is probably right now is that it is legitimate to multiply the utility of a possible outcome by its probability to get the utility of the possibility.