ShardPhoenix comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality predictions - Less Wrong

6 Post author: gwern 09 April 2012 09:49PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 11 April 2012 01:02:11PM *  0 points [-]

Hmm. Gwern, looking over a few of these, I feel like your percentages given are consistently too high. Then again, I guess we'll see how it works out in the end.

Comment author: gwern 11 April 2012 03:08:12PM *  0 points [-]

You're probably right. I have good handles on real-world outcomes, but for fiction there's so many freedoms that I think I anchor on initial suggestions too much.