CarlShulman comments on Assessing Kurzweil: the results - Less Wrong

45 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 16 January 2013 04:51PM

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Comment author: HoverHell 15 January 2013 04:42:29PM *  1 point [-]

these were not binary yes/no predictions

And how it would be most appropriate to correct for that? Normalizing by random on all alternative predictions (that were made or that can be come up with)?

(with non-binary those graphs, as it seems to me, get relatively useless)

Comment author: CarlShulman 16 January 2013 08:14:22PM 3 points [-]

(with non-binary those graphs, as it seems to me, get relatively useless)

They are at least fairly comparable to the format in Kurzweil's self-assessment, and so useful for putting the high accuracy ratings reported there into perspective.