AspiringKnitter comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

20 Post author: gwern 01 January 2012 09:35AM

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 01 January 2012 06:38:49AM 1 point [-]

Do you need to have an actual probability? Do you have to bet anything to post predictions? Do you have to be on PredictionBook.com?

Because this seems cool, but I'm not sure...?

Comment author: TheOtherDave 01 January 2012 07:04:58AM 3 points [-]

Dunno if there are particular rules for this thread, but in general we encourage predictions to have confidence intervals associated with them. No bets needed, PredictionBook.com account not required.

Comment author: orthonormal 07 January 2012 11:47:54PM 0 points [-]

You can predict however you like. Predictions with numbers are preferred, but not required. There's a fairly good chance that gwern will make a PredictionBook post out of one of your numeric predictions.