Decius comments on How do you interpret your "% positive"? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 06 April 2013 01:16:03AM 0 points [-]

Abg bayl jbhyq V rkcrpg gur gbc 15 nyy-gvzr gb or jvyqyl aba-ercerfragngvir, V jbhyq or fhecevfrq vs 'gur gbc a nyy-gvzr' jnf pybfr gb ercerfragngvir sbe a yrff guna 50% bs npgvir hfref.

Comment author: Stabilizer 06 April 2013 01:52:13AM 3 points [-]

Why is this is in rot13?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 April 2013 01:51:45AM 4 points [-]

Why did you rot13 that? You just wasted a minute of my life.

Comment author: Decius 06 April 2013 07:07:38PM 2 points [-]

... Because of anchoring bias. Is there a reference to when predictions which are requested should be plaintext?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 April 2013 08:50:31PM *  1 point [-]

Oh! Sorry. That makes sense. Is there a lesswrong built-in rot13 decoder? (That's why it took a minute--I was searching for documentation about that.)

Comment author: Decius 06 April 2013 10:08:08PM 0 points [-]

I'm not aware of one, but I personally find rot13.com to be non-onerous. New-tab, copy, paste, close.

Comment author: wedrifid 06 April 2013 01:59:49AM 1 point [-]

Why did you rot13 that? You just wasted a minute of my life.

Wow. I'm so used to just copying and pasting rot13'd stuff that I didn't even notice how not-necessary it was.

Comment author: ArisKatsaris 06 April 2013 10:16:59AM 0 points [-]

In both Firefox and Chrome (at the very least) you can find plugins that will rot13 texts by right-clicking and selecting an option in the popup menu. On the whole that's much more convenient than going to rot13.com or such, and saves time in the long run.