Manfred comments on Our Phyg Is Not Exclusive Enough - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 15 April 2012 10:59:00PM 2 points [-]

I notice that, in topics that Eliezer did not explicitly cover in the sequences (and some that he did), LW has made zero progress in general. This is probably one of the reasons why.

<shameless self-promotion> My recent post explains how to get true beliefs in situations like the anthropic trilemma, which post begins with the words "speaking of problems I don't know how to solve." </shameless self-promotion>

However, there is a bit of a remaining problem, since I don't know how to model the wrong way of doing things (naive application of Bayes' rule to questionable interpretations). well enough to tell whether it's fixable or not, so although the problem is solved, it is not dissolved.

Comment author: Grognor 15 April 2012 11:15:52PM *  0 points [-]

I quietly downvoted your post when you made it for its annoying style and because I didn't think it really solved any problems, just asserted that it did.

Comment author: Manfred 16 April 2012 02:31:29AM 4 points [-]

What could I do to improve the style of my writing?