orthonormal comments on Minicamps on Rationality and Awesomeness: May 11-13, June 22-24, and July 21-28 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Blueberry 29 March 2012 11:09:42PM 1 point [-]

You do not use "math" on uncalibrated pseudo-quantities; that just tricks you into overriding your intuition for something with no correct basis.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by pseudo-quantities.

strength might be most important (10), then cost (9) then wieght (8) and so on.

So the problem is that these attributes were given rankings from 10 down to 1, rather than their weights that corresponded to their actual importance?

Comment author: orthonormal 29 March 2012 11:20:00PM 1 point [-]

So the problem is that these attributes were given rankings from 10 down to 1, rather than their weights that corresponded to their actual importance?

Right- that can cause this problem. (Not quite the same dynamic, but you get the idea.)

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