Daniel_Burfoot comments on The mind-killer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 04 May 2009 09:45:50AM *  1 point [-]

You cannot selectively apply Aumann agreement. If you want to count tiny bunch of people who believe in AI foom, you must also take into account 7 billion people, many of them really smart, who definitely don't.

I don't have this problem, as I don't really believe that using Aumann agreement is useful with real humans.

Or you could count my awareness of insider overconfidence as magic information:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/07/beware-the-insi.html

Comment author: jimmy 05 May 2009 07:08:09AM 0 points [-]

This is Less Wrong we're talking about. Insider overconfidence isn't "magic information".

See my top level post for a full response.