whpearson comments on The Epistemic Prisoner's Dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: whpearson 18 April 2009 01:40:30PM 0 points [-]

I would condition my response on how trustworthy my colleague and I had been on previous diagnoses (and equally consistent with our confidence of our diagnoses). If we had both been equally good, I should trust his judgement as well as mine, then I would pick 10,000 of the wrong medicine and trust him to follow the same reasoning.