RolfAndreassen comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RolfAndreassen 08 May 2013 05:30:33PM 0 points [-]

How large was your prior for "insurance helps some and harms others, and we should try to figure out which is which" before that was one possible way of rescuing insurance from this study? That sort of argument is, I respectfully suggest, a warning signal which should make you consider whether your bottom line is already written.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 09 May 2013 01:56:30AM *  1 point [-]

I wasn't even thinking of insurance here. You were talking about garlic. I was thinking about my physics experiments where the standard deviation is a very useful channel of information.