ciphergoth comments on Rationality Quotes May 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 03 May 2013 12:03:52PM 16 points [-]

it is often better to pull numbers out of your arse and use them to make a decision, than to pull a decision out of your arse.

-- Paul Crowley

Comment author: David_Gerard 04 May 2013 11:39:22AM 9 points [-]

This is a claim about reality. Do we actually know that pulling numbers out of your arse actually does produce better results than pulling the decisions out directly? Or does it just feel better, because you have a theory now?

Comment author: ciphergoth 12 May 2016 07:17:33PM 2 points [-]

Years later, this unsurprising intuition is spectacularly confirmed by the Good Judgement Project; details in "Superforecasting".