TraderJoe comments on Raising the forecasting waterline (part 1) - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Morendil 09 October 2012 03:49PM

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Comment author: TraderJoe 10 October 2012 05:49:12PM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: Kindly 11 October 2012 02:44:27PM 0 points [-]

The transliteration does, but the actual Arabic means "V'z Sebz Nzrevpn".

So in fact TraderJoe's prediction of 0.5 was a simple average over the two statements given, and everyone else giving a prediction failed to take into account that the answer could be neither "true" nor "false".

Comment author: TheOtherDave 10 October 2012 06:11:57PM 0 points [-]

Not according to google translate. Incidentally, that string is particularly easy to uncypher by inspection.

Comment author: TraderJoe 11 October 2012 06:40:41AM *  0 points [-]

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Comment author: thomblake 10 October 2012 06:15:04PM 0 points [-]

Yeah, that's an interesting discrepancy.