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

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Comment author: dbaupp 03 January 2012 10:47:37PM 1 point [-]

Why reduce 95% rather than the complementary 5%?

Maybe because that pushes the probabilities towards the zero-knowledge position of 50%. (However, as you say, this isn't a zero-knowledge situation.)