Cyan comments on CFAR website launched - Less Wrong

33 Post author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 03:01PM

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Comment author: Cyan 03 July 2012 06:15:46PM *  17 points [-]

Very nice! ETA: I'll be specific: the look-n-feel of the website is generally professional and polished. The text is short, to the point, basically ideal in tone and content.

Minor nitpick: on the What is rationality? page, the line

For example, a Perfect Reasoner wouldn’t be more confident that Linda is a feminist bank teller than that she is a bank teller, because in all cases where Linda is a feminist bank teller she is also a bank teller.

occurs without introducing Linda or discussing why one might expect her to be a feminist. We're all steeped in the heuristics and biases literature here, but this could be rather baffling to anyone not already familiar with the Linda story/experiment.

In short: possible inferential distance detected. Illogical! Illogical! Illogical!... sorry.

Comment author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 08:20:49PM 5 points [-]

Fixed, kinda. If somebody has a clearer, very short way to illustrate what 'violating the laws of probability theory' looks like, I'm all ears.

Comment author: TimS 03 July 2012 09:18:13PM 2 points [-]

Unrelated issue - It looks like there is an unclosed italics tag somewhere in the "Perfect Reasoner" part of "What is Rationality"

Comment author: lukeprog 03 July 2012 09:21:28PM 1 point [-]

Fixed.