evand comments on Kurzweil's predictions: good accuracy, poor self-calibration - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 11 July 2012 09:55AM

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Comment author: evand 11 July 2012 07:40:09PM 14 points [-]

If you're looking for something that means "more than half", then "mostly" is a good choice. If you're looking for something that means "less than half", then you have the problem that "<qualifier> true" means less true than "<qualifier> false".