Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Model Combination and Adjustment - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 17 July 2013 08:31PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 July 2013 08:32:21PM 0 points [-]

Doesn't the act of combining many outside views and their reference classes turn you into somebody operating on the inside view?

Yes. So does the act of selecting just one outside view as your Personal Favorite, since it gives the right answer.

Comment author: chaosmage 17 July 2013 09:18:02PM 1 point [-]

I think that's only true if you allow yourself free choice of outside views. If you had a fixed frameworks of which outside views to take into account, i.e. how to select the ten experts you're going to ask for their opinion, and you decide that before you formulate the problem, the composite model you get shouldn't suffer from the arbitrariness of the inside view. Right?