tgb comments on How to Be Oversurprised - Less Wrong

13 Post author: royf 07 January 2013 04:02AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (14)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: tgb 07 January 2013 05:03:54PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for the post; I particularly enjoyed the one-sentence takeaway at the end. One criticism though: you use mathematical notation like I(Wt;Mt) without saying what it denotes. Even though that can be inferred from the surroundings, it would be less likely to confuse if you stated it explicitly.

Comment author: royf 07 January 2013 08:33:39PM 1 point [-]

I'm trying to balance between introducing terminology to new readers and not boring those who've read my previous posts. Thanks for the criticism, I'll use it (and its upvotes) to correct my balance.