PhilGoetz comments on A Request for Open Problems - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 13 May 2009 07:59:58PM 0 points [-]

If there were a common pattern, you could sample the opinions in a population, or over time, and estimate how much longer it would take, or how much knowledge would be needed, to arrive at a correct opinion.