Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Final Words - Less Wrong

71 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2009 09:12PM

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Comment author: orthonormal 27 April 2009 11:08:43PM 12 points [-]

I'd wager 10 karma points against 1 that this is not the desire Eliezer has imagined for Brennan.

I'd only wager 5 against 1 that he has a specific desire imagined for Brennan.

(Thus begins the prediction market for the Bardic Conspiracy...)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 April 2009 11:41:58PM 11 points [-]

You win, naturally.

I can think of a desire that Brennan might have, and indeed had it in mind at the time; but since it doesn't appear in the story, it would seem that my particular belief is not particularly privileged...

...but I agree with you that Brennan's desire is almost certainly not "a better way to train Bayesian masters", that would be way the hell out of his revealed character.