TheOtherDave comments on Knowledge value = knowledge quality × domain importance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 16 April 2012 05:25:59PM 1 point [-]

Hrm.

Rolling dice a ton of times starts running into problems with short-term memory buffer size and conflation with explicit strategies for managing that limit; it might be more useful to provide a histogram of the results of a hundred die rolls and ask whether it's a biased die or not.

Though, thinking about this... surely this isn't an absolute granularity? I mean, even supposing that it's constant at all. I would expect the minimum size of a detectable probability shift to be proportional to the magnitude of the original probability.